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CSS Irregular Gradient Background


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Hello gang,

 

I am in need to create a background that has this sort of irregular gradient background.  I don't even know what specifically to call this.   I am talking about how the colors fade into each other but not in a standard linear gradient.

 

Thanks.

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  On 13/05/2014 at 22:11, Seahorsepip said:

Hmm thats a interesting request. It can be done with multiple css gradients and background positions.

I'll give it a try later today.

For what do you need it? A website background?

 

Correct, this is going to be a website's background.

 

It's VERY kind of you to attempt to DO this, I am only asking for the name of this look. 

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  On 13/05/2014 at 23:12, jamesyfx said:

I don't think it has a name as such, I'd say the example has just a fixed resolution image. But it looks mostly like Bokeh.. because of the circles and the blur.

 

Oh it is definitely a fixed image (template I found that my client likes)  I will look into Bokeh, that looks promising.

 

Have a great day

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You could do this with a mix of SVG and gradients, but I'd recommend against it. Even though browsers have greatly improved speed wise in recent years, something like that is still too complicated.

A high res raster background with something like background-size: cover; would fit the bill and perform better.

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  On 14/05/2014 at 12:52, The_Decryptor said:

You could do this with a mix of SVG and gradients, but I'd recommend against it. Even though browsers have greatly improved speed wise in recent years, something like that is still too complicated.

A high res raster background with something like background-size: cover; would fit the bill and perform better.

I agree, might be a fun experiment though. I bet it would look extra awesome if parallax were added to the mix!

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Someone did a attempt to make a animated bokeh effect on a canvas element but this works very slow because the blur of a element uses a lot of hardware resources: http://mgrf.de/bokeh/

 

And also there were quite a few bokeh effect generators on codepen, as example: http://codepen.io/playerace/pen/Gjbhw

 

The bokeh effect was a quite popular thing for some time though it's not that popular anymore right now as it was before, currently minimal design and simple background patterns are the popular things ^^

 

And for some experimental css gradients: http://lea.verou.me/css3patterns/#

This link also contains a bokeh css gradient background.

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Thanks people,

 

This will need to animate some of the colors, so a static background won't do...  besides it'll need to work on too many resolutions to properly work that way.

 

I have been on CodePen since yesterday, some interesting pieces...

 

This one http://mgrf.de/bokeh/ could be helpful.  I don't need the movement, only the changing of the colors.

 

Thanks everyone for the info, I really appreciate

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