hard light · drift study
type up.
pictures down.
the type and the image are on the same scroll but not at the same speed, so they slide past each other as you go. the letters are composited into the picture rather than sitting on it — hard light, which multiplies the dark half of the type and screens the light half, so the image appears to be lighting the letters from inside.
the panel in the corner is live. change the blend, pull the drift to zero, see what each one is actually doing.
01 · the move
image falls · type rises
hard light
01picture at −0.45, type at +0.95. the gap between those two numbers is the whole effect.
02 · overrun
type wider than the picture holding it
drift
02the word is set larger than its container and clipped by it. what you lose off the edges is the point.
03 · two speeds
−0.2 against −0.8
slow
fast
two pictures, two speeds, side by side. the eye reads the faster one as closer. this is the cheapest depth cue on the web and it costs one attribute.
nothing
behind it