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Star Wars Opening Crawl (HTML/CSS/JS)

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Aamundo
Last edited Jul 2, 2020
Created on Jul 2, 2020

This visualization recreates the iconic Star Wars opening crawl using HTML, CSS, and an SVG logo. The page begins with the classic “A long time ago...” introduction text, followed by the yellow Star Wars logo rendered as an SVG path, which then fades into a scrolling text crawl that recedes into the distance. The data source is a gist by author amundo, and the effect is achieved through CSS transforms and animation on the HTML sections.

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