I was sitting around on Saturday and wondering what I could do with all these cool photographs I have dotted around the place from the months of travelling I’ve done when I had an idea. The idea was The Ritualiser.
Some pretty basic PHP pulls in the assets from a set of arrays and the CSS and jQuery do the rest.
The ‘sigils’ are made from three randomly chosen and over-layed ‘runes’ with a spritesheet background. Each shape is paired with a phonetic character from the Hebrew Alephbet which makes the ‘Chant’.
The main stage is either a three column or three layer overlayed list items with absolutely positioned images.
In the three column mode the image is given a leftmost, centered or rightmost aspect, again at random.
Each image is also subject to a random chance of being called with a class which will trigger a jQuery effect, increasing the amount of variation possible with limited elements.
Combined, the images, sigils and chant make the ritual.
Stay for a while and see what appears. Click on a sigil to refresh the page and get a fresh one.
Caveat
It won’t work very well in IE but it was a test. I may revisit this in the future to add some functionality to share favourites.
There are hundreds of photos left to resize and put up.