painting – Bram.us

Debugging layout repaint issues triggered by CSS Transition

Dzhavat ran into an interesting performance issue where practically his whole site would repaint when a transition in the header was triggered. The element being animated is a span wrapping some text placed inside an h1. The h1 itself is in the upper left corner on the page and contains my name. Initially, only the …

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Pure CSS Francine – An 18th-Century Oil Painting Recreated with HTML and CSS

Handcrafted recreation of an 18th-century oil painting using just HTML and CSS. Here’s an analysis of it using the Chrome DevTools, as recorded by Paul Irish: Chrome only though: Because of the artistic nature of this project I have not concerned myself with cross-browser-compatibility, so the live preview will most likely look laughable in anything …

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Patrick Hughes 3D Paintings

This is an amazing piece of 3D art where the closest part of the picture appears to be the furthest away, an optical illusion known as “Reverspective”. As you move around the painting, the room in the painting appears to move with you. The mind can easily be fooled. Here’s another one:

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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

A painting that caught my interest: Wanderer above the Sea of Fog → Related: Wanderlust, “a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world”

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