Kaleidos: CSS3 Kaleidoscope Effects

A simple kaleidoscope effect produced with a bunch of SASS-powered CSS3 transforms.

See it in action here: http://coldhead.github.com/kaleidos/

Parameters

You can pass parameters via the query string: e.g. ?n=13&src=http://someurl/someimage.png

• n is a positive integer representing the number of "segments" to create within the kaleidoscope. The provided CSS enthusiastically supports up to 32 segments but the effect works best with lower values.

• src is a URL for an alternate image.

• Assigning a truthy value to clean inhibits the display of the link to Github.

Dedication

Dedicated to @jeanettehayes, who I thought might like this kind of thing.

Minutiae

The name "kaleidos" is derived from the Ancient Greek καλός (kalos), "beautiful, beauty" and εἶδος (eidos), "that which is seen: form, shape".

This project is optimised for butterfly wings. A modern browser is mandatory. Happiness is mandatory.

This might be more accurately described as a teleidoscope but who has ever heard of such a thing, really.

TODO

• Some kind of build process like all the cool kids are doing.
• Hands-free animation for mobile devices and lazy people.
• Whatever @miketaylr requires for Opera.