Please take a look at this site trmc.org
Look at the flash header, can something like that be done with jquery? If so what jquery plug in would work the best? I've searched for image slide shows, but nothing with that effect can be found. Possibly the best method I found is spritely.
I look forward to your answers.
There's a lot going on in that header so I'm not sure exactly the effect you're looking for. Pretty sure the images coming into focus and the rings moving would be difficult to do in JavaScript.
However, if you're talking about a big banner that has rotating images, I've implemented this a few times using jCarousel. I've even found that jCarousel Lite is easier to use and will work in most cases when you don't need a bunch of customization.
I think that could be done with jquery but I dunno what the performance of this would be like.
https://buildinternet.s3.amazonaws.com/live-tutorials/postcard/index.html there is an example of a jquery postcard with repeating animations.
The movement of image and texts are easy to implement.
The blur effect is not possible with JS (except in IE) but you can make something similar with .fadeIn() fadeOut() to change the transparency.
The circles "wave" is also possible with images and playing with theirs size and transparency.