Inkdrop

A drop of ink falls into clear water, blooms into a branching cloud, then thins away.

isomer.sh/effects/inkdrop

Knobs

Continue on iPhone
Preset
#172D43
5.60
0.85
1.00
Colour1
1.90
Shape3
0.07
0.75
0.42
Motion1
0.00
Texture2
0.16
0.80
Still frame

What reduced motion shows: 2.5 s.

Install

Code

components/isomer/inkdrop.tsx
'use client';
// Generated by isomer. Do not edit by hand; run `isomer add` again to update. (from packages/react/src/Inkdrop.tsx)
// generated by packages/react/scripts/gen-components.mjs, do not edit
import type { CSSProperties } from 'react';
import { useIsomerCanvas, type Mount } from './useIsomerCanvas';
// @ts-ignore: the runtime is plain JS with no type declarations
import * as runtime from './inkdrop.js';

const { DEFAULTS, mount } = runtime as { DEFAULTS: InkdropKnobs; mount: Mount };

export interface InkdropKnobs {
  accent: string;
  period: number;
  bloom: number;
  fade: number;
  grain: number;
  concentration: number;
  spread: number;
  rim: number;
  tendrils: number;
  current: number;
  turbulence: number;
}

export interface InkdropProps extends Partial<InkdropKnobs> {
  className?: string;
  style?: CSSProperties;
  /** Render this one frame (seconds) and run no clock. Used by the parity tests. */
  time?: number;
  paused?: boolean;
  /** Draw t = 2.5 once when the user prefers reduced motion. Default true. */
  respectReducedMotion?: boolean;
  /** Keep each frame readable after it is shown, for canvas.toDataURL or readPixels. Read at mount. Default false. */
  preserveDrawingBuffer?: boolean;
}

export const inkdropDefaults: Readonly<InkdropKnobs> = DEFAULTS;

export function Inkdrop({ className, style, time, paused, respectReducedMotion, preserveDrawingBuffer, ...props }: InkdropProps) {
  const knobs = { ...DEFAULTS };
  for (const k of Object.keys(DEFAULTS) as (keyof InkdropKnobs)[]) {
    const v = props[k];
    if (v !== undefined) (knobs as Record<string, unknown>)[k] = v;
  }
  const ref = useIsomerCanvas({ mount, knobs, time, paused, respectReducedMotion, preserveDrawingBuffer, posterTime: 2.5 });
  return <canvas ref={ref} className={className} style={{ display: 'block', width: '100%', height: '100%', ...style }} />;
}

Parity

iPhone 17 Pro simulator, iOS 26.3.1 against Chromium headless + SwiftShader, 15 October 2026.