Ocean Light Cone
Volumetric beam as a blurred trapezoid between an emitter and the ellipse it lands on, all three flickering together so the shaft and its pool stay tied.
- lines of CSS
- 62lines of CSS
- dependencies
- 0dependencies
- browser, for years
- Everybrowser, for years
- stops under reduced motion
- Guardedstops under reduced motion
Vue, Svelte, styled-components and Tailwind exports are part of Pro. HTML, CSS and React are free forever.
.fx-v10-glow-lightcone-ocean-14250 {
position: relative;
width: 196px;
height: 152px;
overflow: hidden;
border-radius: 0.55rem;
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #080d1a, #04060d);
}
.fx-v10-glow-lightcone-ocean-14250 .lamp {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
top: 10px;
width: 26px;
height: 9px;
margin-left: -13px;
border-radius: 0 0 5px 5px;
background: #06b6d4;
box-shadow: 0 0 18px #06b6d4;
}
.fx-v10-glow-lightcone-ocean-14250 .cone {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
top: 19px;
width: 132px;
height: 106px;
margin-left: -66px;
background: linear-gradient(180deg, rgba(59,130,246, 0.42), rgba(99,102,241, 0.04));
clip-path: polygon(42% 0, 58% 0, 100% 100%, 0 100%);
filter: blur(3px);
animation: fx-v10-glow-lightcone-ocean-14250-flicker 5s ease-in-out infinite;
}
@keyframes fx-v10-glow-lightcone-ocean-14250-flicker {
0%, 100% { opacity: 0.85; }
45% { opacity: 1; }
70% { opacity: 0.78; }
}
.fx-v10-glow-lightcone-ocean-14250 .pool {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
bottom: 16px;
width: 140px;
height: 26px;
margin-left: -70px;
border-radius: 50%;
background: radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% 50%, rgba(99,102,241, 0.5), transparent 70%);
filter: blur(4px);
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
.fx-v10-glow-lightcone-ocean-14250,
.fx-v10-glow-lightcone-ocean-14250::before,
.fx-v10-glow-lightcone-ocean-14250::after,
.fx-v10-glow-lightcone-ocean-14250 *,
.fx-v10-glow-lightcone-ocean-14250 *::before,
.fx-v10-glow-lightcone-ocean-14250 *::after {
animation-duration: 1ms !important;
animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
animation-delay: 0ms !important;
transition-duration: 1ms !important;
transition-delay: 0ms !important;
}
}<div class="fx-v10-glow-lightcone-ocean-14250">
<i class="lamp"></i>
<i class="cone"></i>
<i class="pool"></i>
</div>What do I do with this?
- Put
ocean-light-cone-14251.cssanywhere your page already loads CSS from — in Next.js that isapp/globals.css, or any stylesheet with a<link>in your HTML. - Then put the class on the element you want it on:
<button class="fx-v10-glow-lightcone-ocean-14250">. The CSS does nothing until a class name in it matches something on the page.
- Link the stylesheet, then paste the markup wherever you need it.
npx hoverlab add ocean-light-cone-14251What's included
- The markup and the stylesheet, in whichever framework you pick
- No runtime dependencies
Works with
- React
- Vue
- Svelte
- Tailwind
- styled-components
- Plain CSS
npx hoverlab add ocean-light-cone-14251
Or over MCP, from your editor's agent — no account needed.
License
Free to read, copy and install, for personal and non-commercial projects. Shipping it in client work or a paid product needs Pro ($79 once). The source lands in your repo and stops being ours — no attribution, nothing to upgrade.
Motion safety
Static estimate, read from the CSS
- Reduced motion
- Guarded
Ships a
prefers-reduced-motionblock, so the loop settles into its end state for visitors who ask for less motion. - What it animates
- Compositor only
Only
transform,opacityorfilter: the GPU can run it without re-laying-out or repainting the page. - Flashing (WCAG 2.3.1)
- Under 3 flashes/s
Its brightest loop is about 0.2 a second. Estimated from duration, iterations and keyframes, not from rendered frames.
- Layout shift (CLS)
- No shift expected
Nothing it animates moves or resizes the box in flow. A category from the CSS, not a measurement for this effect.
Every row is read from the shipped CSS. Only a figure marked measured came from a browser. Customizing the speed changes the timing, so recheck a customized copy. How it is computed
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- Unlimited bundle exports, in Vue, Svelte and Tailwind
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7 variations of Ocean Light Cone
Finished looks, each one a position in the customizer above. Copy any of them, or open it and keep moving the sliders.