IrisBackgroundsSilk Drape
Silk Drape
Backlit silk in one warm amber gradient, its folds parting toward the pointer.
Silk Drape
Soft vertical drapery lit from behind, in one amber gradient — deep umber at the top thinning to pale gold at the base. The palette is the site's own accent ramp, read live, so a theme change or context restore picks it up automatically.
The pointer parts the folds: the drapery nearest the cursor bends toward it and catches a soft bloom, as if the fabric were touched from behind.
Install
No installation needed — self-contained, paste-in code.
Usage
Drop it straight into a page.
import { SilkField } from "./SilkField";
export default function Example() {
return (
// Fills its nearest positioned ancestor (it renders itself `absolute
// inset-0`) — give it a sized, relatively positioned box.
<div className="relative isolate h-[32rem] w-full overflow-hidden rounded-2xl">
<SilkField />
</div>
);
}Component
The real source, exactly as it ships — multiple files, kept together.
"use client";
import { useEffect, useRef } from "react";
import { mountShaderSurface } from "@/lib/shader-surface";
/**
* A live WebGL field of soft vertical drapery — backlit silk in one warm
* amber gradient, deep umber at the top thinning to pale gold at the base.
* The pointer parts the folds: the drapery nearest the cursor bends toward
* it and catches a soft bloom, as if the fabric were being touched from
* behind.
*
* Drop it into any `position: relative`/`isolate` parent — it fills the box.
* Built on `lib/shader-surface.ts`, so degradation is already handled: no
* WebGL, a blocked or lost context, a hidden tab, or `prefers-reduced-motion`
* all leave the CSS `.iris-silkfield__floor` underneath visible.
*
* Unlike `TileField`, the palette here IS the site's amber accent ramp
* (`--color-accent-950` … `--color-accent-300`, read live via `colors` so a
* theme change or context restore picks it up automatically) — the "same
* colour" the reference asked for is the portfolio's own amber, not a new
* fixed one.
*
* Reading guard: same mechanism as `TileField` — when `guardSelector`
* resolves to an element, the field measures it every frame and clamps its
* own luminance under a ceiling in that region (hue/saturation untouched).
* Off by default (`null`) because this field, unlike the hero's, is meant to
* sit behind anything — pass a selector where copy overlaps it.
*/
const FRAG = `
uniform vec2 u_res;
uniform float u_time;
uniform float u_scale;
uniform vec3 u_pointer; /* x, y (0 bottom .. 1 top), presence 0..1 */
uniform vec3 u_deep; /* --color-accent-950, the top of the field */
uniform vec3 u_umber; /* --color-accent-800, upper-mid */
uniform vec3 u_gold; /* --color-accent-600, lower-mid */
uniform vec3 u_pale; /* --color-accent-300, the base */
uniform vec4 u_readA;
uniform float u_guard;
/* Folds across the width, at two scales — a slow, wide sway and a finer
thread count riding on top of it. What reads as silk rather than
stripes is the second scale plus the domain warp below. */
const float FOLDS = 6.0;
const float THREADS = 22.0;
void main() {
vec2 res = u_res / u_scale;
vec2 uv = gl_FragCoord.xy / u_scale / res; /* 0..1, y up */
float aspect = res.x / res.y;
vec2 P = (uv - 0.5) * vec2(aspect, 1.0);
vec2 ptr = (u_pointer.xy - 0.5) * vec2(aspect, 1.0);
vec2 toP = P - ptr;
float dP = length(toP);
float pull = u_pointer.z * exp(-dP * dP * 50.0);
/* the touch parts the drapery: folds near the cursor bend toward it,
as if the fabric were being pulled from behind the cursor */
vec2 wp = P - toP * pull * 1.1;
/* a slow, low-amplitude warp gives the folds their waviness without
smearing the banding away — its own spatial frequency stays well
below the fold frequency it perturbs */
float warp = fbm(vec2(wp.x * 1.4, wp.y * 0.8 + u_time * 0.02)) * 0.30;
float phase = wp.x * FOLDS + warp + u_time * 0.035;
float coarse = sin(phase * 3.14159265);
float fine = sin((wp.x * THREADS + warp * 1.6) * 3.14159265);
float drape = clamp(coarse * 0.72 + fine * 0.28, -1.0, 1.0);
drape = sign(drape) * pow(abs(drape), 0.82); /* widen the bright peaks a touch */
/* ---- the vertical gradient, warm at the top, pale at the base ---- */
vec3 base = u_pale;
base = mix(base, u_gold, smoothstep(0.10, 0.52, uv.y));
base = mix(base, u_umber, smoothstep(0.42, 0.80, uv.y));
base = mix(base, u_deep, smoothstep(0.70, 1.05, uv.y));
vec3 col = base * (0.58 + 0.62 * (0.5 + 0.5 * drape));
/* the touch: a soft warm bloom, and the nearest folds catch extra light */
col += u_pale * pull * 0.42;
col += base * pull * (0.5 + 0.5 * drape) * 0.5;
col = max(col, 0.0);
/* ---- the reading guard (see TileField for the full rationale) ---- */
vec2 rd = abs(uv - u_readA.xy) / max(u_readA.zw, vec2(0.02));
float m = mix(max(rd.x, rd.y), length(rd), 0.4);
float band = 1.0 - smoothstep(0.72, 2.1, m);
col = mix(col, holdUnder(col, 0.09), band * u_guard);
col += (bayer8(gl_FragCoord.xy) - 0.5) * (2.2 / 255.0);
gl_FragColor = vec4(col, 1.0);
}
`;
export interface SilkFieldProps {
className?: string;
/**
* CSS selector for the block the reading guard should keep readable,
* resolved against `document`. `null` (the default) turns the guard off.
*/
guardSelector?: string | null;
}
export function SilkField({ className, guardSelector = null }: SilkFieldProps) {
const canvasRef = useRef<HTMLCanvasElement>(null);
useEffect(() => {
const canvas = canvasRef.current;
if (!canvas) return;
const guardOn = guardSelector != null;
let guardEl: Element | null | undefined;
const readGuardEl = () => {
if (guardEl === undefined) {
guardEl = guardOn ? document.querySelector(guardSelector as string) : null;
}
return guardEl;
};
return mountShaderSurface(canvas, {
fragment: FRAG,
colors: {
u_deep: "--color-accent-950",
u_umber: "--color-accent-800",
u_gold: "--color-accent-600",
u_pale: "--color-accent-300",
},
uniforms: ["u_readA", "u_guard"],
onInit: (gl, u) => {
if (u.u_readA) gl.uniform4f(u.u_readA, 0.5, 0.5, 0.44, 0.32);
if (u.u_guard) gl.uniform1f(u.u_guard, guardOn ? 1 : 0);
},
onFrame: (gl, u, s) => {
if (!guardOn || !u.u_readA) return;
let cx = 0.5, cy = 0.5, hw = 0.44, hh = 0.32;
const el = readGuardEl();
const { rect } = s;
if (el && rect.width > 0 && rect.height > 0) {
const r = el.getBoundingClientRect();
const padX = rect.width * 0.09;
const padY = rect.height * 0.11;
cx = (r.left + r.width / 2 - rect.left) / rect.width;
cy = 1 - (r.top + r.height / 2 - rect.top) / rect.height;
hw = (r.width / 2 + padX) / rect.width;
hh = (r.height / 2 + padY) / rect.height;
}
gl.uniform4f(u.u_readA, cx, cy, hw, hh);
},
onPainted: () => canvas.setAttribute("data-shader", "on"),
/* No onIdle: once the field has painted once, its last frame stays on
screen while the surface is parked off-view. Removing data-shader
here (as TileField once did) crossfades the canvas back to the
static __floor gradient on every scroll-away and then fades the live
field back in over 600ms on return — the "static then shader" flash.
The floor is a fallback for no-WebGL / lost-context / reduced-motion
only; a lost context still clears it below. */
onLost: () => canvas.removeAttribute("data-shader"),
maxPixels: 2_200_000,
dprCap: 1.5,
});
}, [guardSelector]);
return (
<div className={`absolute inset-0 overflow-hidden${className ? ` ${className}` : ""}`} aria-hidden="true">
<div className="absolute inset-0 [background:linear-gradient(_180deg,var(--color-accent-950)_0%,var(--color-accent-800)_42%,var(--color-accent-600)_72%,var(--color-accent-300)_100%_)]" />
<canvas ref={canvasRef} className="absolute inset-0 w-full h-full opacity-0 transition-opacity duration-[--duration-slow] ease-[--ease-standard] data-[shader=on]:opacity-100" />
</div>
);
}Custom work
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