Introducing Animaginary
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When you’re building a website for a company as ambitious as Planetaria, you need to make an impression. I wanted people to visit our website and see animations that looked more realistic than reality itself.
The Challenge
Creating high-performance web animations that look realistic and run smoothly across all devices is a significant challenge. Traditional animation libraries often struggle with:
- Performance on mobile devices
- Complex physics simulations
- Realistic rendering
- Browser compatibility
Enter Animaginary
Animaginary is our solution to these challenges. It’s a new animation library that:
- Uses WebGL for hardware-accelerated rendering
- Implements efficient physics calculations
- Provides a simple, declarative API
- Works across all modern browsers
How It Works
Animaginary uses a combination of techniques to achieve its results:
- WebGL rendering for maximum performance
- Web Workers for off-main-thread physics calculations
- Optimized memory management
- Adaptive quality settings
Getting Started
Here’s a simple example of how to use Animaginary:
import { animate } from 'animaginary';
animate('#element', {
physics: 'fluid',
particles: 1000,
quality: 'high',
});
The Future
We’re just getting started with Animaginary. Future updates will include:
- More physics presets
- Better performance optimizations
- Advanced rendering effects
- Extended browser support
Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to push the boundaries of web animations.
import { animate } from '@planetaria/animaginary'
export function MyComponent({ open, children }) {
return (
<animate.div
in={open}
animateFrom="opacity-0 scale-95"
animateTo="opacity-100 scale-100"
duration={350}
>
{children}
</animate.div>
)
}
Animaginary is our new web animation library that redefines what you thought was possible on the web. Hand-written in optimized WASM, Animaginary can even animate the height property of an element at 60fps.
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