Creative Brief

An interactive full-viewport animation of concentric rings radiating from an off-center origin. The rings are imperfect — they wobble organically like hand-drawn circles or topographic contour lines. The mouse interacts with the rings: hovering between two rings pushes them apart, and clicking sends ripples outward through the ring field.

Inspiration: greenoaks.com homepage (as of April 2026).

Mood: Calm, sophisticated, slightly organic. Reads like a topographic map, a fingerprint, or ripples in still water.

Technical Specification

Geometry

Origin Point

• Positioned at roughly the rule-of-thirds intersection, not dead center.

• Default: approximately (33% viewport width, 33% viewport height) — the "golden crop" point common in portrait photography.

• Should be configurable via props.

Ring Generation

• A series of concentric circles all sharing the same center (origin) point.

• Each ring's radius increases by a fixed increment (the "gap"):

  radius[n] = baseRadius + n * gap

• Gap is approximately 20-25px (configurable).

• The outermost rings extend well beyond the viewport, clipped by overflow: hidden, ensuring the entire viewport is covered with rings regardless of where the origin sits.

• With a ~20px gap and a ~2000px diagonal, expect roughly 80-100 rings.

Wobble / Imperfection

• Each ring is not a perfect circle. The radius is perturbed per-angle using low-frequency noise (Perlin noise, simplex noise, or a sum of sine waves at different frequencies).

• Each ring gets its own noise seed or phase offset so they don't wobble in unison.

• Perturbation amplitude: subtle, approximately 3-8px deviation from the ideal radius.

• The noise is animated over time — the phase shifts slowly, giving an organic "breathing" wobble. Very slow, almost meditative.

Visual Style

Stroke

• No fill on any ring (fill: none / strokeStyle only).

• Thin stroke: 1px or sub-pixel (e.g., 0.75px).

• Color: derived from the background at reduced opacity. For a dark background, strokes are a lighter tone at ~15-25% opacity. For a light background, strokes are a darker tone at similar opacity.

• The result is a subtle, topographic-map aesthetic — lines that are clearly visible but not harsh.

Background

• Configurable solid color. Default: a deep, muted tone (dark navy, deep green, etc.).

• The animation should also support transparent for overlay use.

Interaction

Mouse Hover — Magnetic Repulsion

• When the cursor sits between two rings, the nearby rings push apart.

• The inner ring's radius decreases slightly and the outer ring's radius increases slightly in the angular region near the cursor.

• Implementation: for each point on each ring, measure distance from that point to the cursor position. Apply a gaussian falloff force that displaces the ring radius outward (for outer ring) or inward (for inner ring) within a ~50-100px influence zone.

• The effect is smooth and spring-like — displacement lerps toward the target (not instant snap), and relaxes back when the cursor moves away.

Click — Radial Ripple

• On click, a shockwave propagates outward from the click point.

• Rings near the click origin receive a sudden radial displacement that travels outward ring-by-ring over approximately 500-800ms.

• Amplitude decays as the ripple spreads — like dropping a stone in water.

• The displacement pulse moves through the ring field at a consistent speed, creating a visible wavefront.

Rendering

Recommended: HTML5 Canvas 2D

• Drawing 80-100 stroked paths per frame with noise perturbation is a natural Canvas workload.

• Use requestAnimationFrame for the render loop.

• Redraw all rings each frame (clear + stroke loop).

Alternative: SVG

• Could use SVG with animated d attributes on <path> elements, but Canvas is more performant at this ring count and update frequency.

Layout

• The animation fills 100% of viewport width and height, minus any header/footer the site uses.

• Use 100dvh or calculate available height to respect existing site chrome.

• Clip overflow so rings extending beyond the viewport are hidden.

Props (Astro Component)

Usage

---
import WobbleRings from '@components/flare/WobbleRings.astro';
---

<WobbleRings
  bgColor="#0a1628"
  ringColor="#ffffff"
  ringOpacity={0.18}
  ringGap={22}
  originX={0.33}
  originY={0.33}
  height="calc(100vh - 80px)"
/>

Variations to Explore

• Light background: white/cream background with dark rings at low opacity.

• Warm tone: deep burgundy or forest green background.

• Tighter rings: gap of 12-15px for denser topographic look.

• Wider rings: gap of 35-40px for a more minimal, zen feel.

• Centered origin: origin at (0.5, 0.5) for symmetrical radiance.

• Multiple origins: two or more origin points whose ring fields overlap and interfere.