Is there any jQuery plugin for progressive light glow effect like this?
A:
With canvas, and a very good computer, you would write something like, but not exactly what you linked. To answer the question: no, I've never seen anything remotely like that, and have seem a very wide variety of plugins.
The best you could hope for would be a linear fade or an image behind a text path that slides across. I've never seen anything like this in javascript, because it's so specialized, it'd be better to make an animated image (honestly, for a color pallete that small a dithered .gif may look pretty good).
Either use flash if you want the effect to be that fancy (no alternative is going to do it that well, you can only hope to get something satisfactory, but not that level of color accuracy and smoothness at once)...or make an animated image. In short, a browser's rendering engine isn't optimized for that kind of animation or image swapping, if a .gif is enough because you have 1 image to do this with, that's your best bet, otherwise: flash.
Nick Craver
2010-04-11 12:33:42
Thanks for help.
2010-04-11 20:14:25
+1
A:
Hi. I saw your post last night and it sounds like a good idea for a plugin to do. so I did it for you.
I have uploaded it here
Please note it needs the color animation plugin by John Resig which you can download here
XGreen
2010-04-11 19:13:16
it is not canvas based. you could go towards that direction but you need to get into what typeface.js people did with re-rendering text in canvas over the normal text.That is actually something I have done with my site and that is how the fonts have anti aliasing. but i wouldn't recommend it for this project as it will probably get too big and a simple glow effect should not be big.
XGreen
2010-04-11 19:18:31
maybe we can develop this further and create different effects too. I was thinking the random letter shine to create a sparkling effect would look cool too. :)
XGreen
2010-04-11 19:29:30
I have updated the plugin now to take two optional parameters: glow : true or sprakle : truelet me know if you can think of more effects for this.
XGreen
2010-04-11 22:08:40