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CSS Color Picker Gradients

This demo illustrates how a color picker's saturation/brightness square and hue strip can be constructed using layered CSS gradients. Drag the circular selectors to change the hue, saturation, and brightness, seeing the resulting color instantly.

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Smooth CSS Variable Animation with @property

This demo showcases how to achieve buttery-smooth, continuous animations of CSS custom properties by registering them with `@property` and specifying their data type. This enables the browser to interpolate values like angles, preventing visual 'snapping' and creating fluid transitions in gradients, glows, and more.

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CSS Holo Card Shimmer Effect

A credit card-like element with an iridescent, oil-slick finish that appears to shimmer and reflect light as it's hovered, creating a captivating holographic effect purely with CSS gradients and transforms.

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