This article was published on July 29, 2010

Color Cycling done Awesome!


Color Cycling done Awesome!

Found on Today and Tomorrow, this will bring back memories. If you’re interested in more of these pay a visit to Mark Ferrari’s work adapted by Joseph Huckaby over here.

8-bit Color Cycling with HTML5. Euh what? A few years ago, video cards could only render 256 colors at a time. So it was very hard to do nice animations. That’s why they invented color cycling. Certain pixel areas cylce through a palette of colors to suggest animation. A very simple idea with a really nice aesthetical outcome.

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