Sakura Petals
Falling cherry-blossom petals with depth layers, sway, flutter, and rotation. Move the pointer to stir up a breeze.
Build a self-contained, performant Canvas 2D visual effect in a single React + TypeScript component.
Effect: "Sakura Petals".
Description: Falling cherry-blossom petals with depth layers, sway, flutter, and rotation. Move the pointer to stir up a breeze.
Current settings: petal count = 30, fall speed = 1, wind / sway = 1, color = Single, hue = 330, second hue = 280.
Tags: particles, nature, ambient, interactive, pointer.
Requirements:
- Use requestAnimationFrame with a delta-time (dt) step, clamped to avoid jumps on tab switches.
- Render crisply: fully clear the canvas every frame (clearRect). Do NOT fake motion blur by painting a translucent background each frame, because that causes permanent 8-bit "ghost" burn-in. If you want trails, store each particle's recent positions and draw them as an explicit fading tail.
- If many short-lived particles are spawned, use an object pool (pre-allocate, reuse, swap-remove on death) to avoid GC pauses.
- Scale the backing store by devicePixelRatio (cap ~2) and handle resize.
- Pause when the tab is hidden or the canvas is off-screen; respect prefers-reduced-motion.
- Expose the listed settings as adjustable props/controls.