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Hover & Micro-interactions

Image distortion on hover

Images warp, bend, or ripple when hovered — using WebGL or CSS filters.

What you're seeing

Hover an image and it bulges, ripples, or melts at the cursor point.

Where you'll see it

Portfolio grids, team pages, gallery sections.

Difficulty

High — 4/5

Libraries that build it

Curtains.jsThree.jsPIXI.js

From the toolbox

CodropsTwo decades of effect tutorials with live demos — where half of these techniques were being taken apart before anyone named them.

Ready to prompt — paste this into your AI coding tool

"Use Curtains.js WebGL plane, apply mouse-reactive displacement on hover, lerp back on leave"

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