rect-spiral

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Last edited Aug 21, 2016

Created on May 30, 2015

An animated grid of squares repeatedly collapses to points and expands into colored rectangles against a dark background. Each cycle, a new set of squares appears, and the staggered delays create a cascading effect as they grow to full size. The code uses D3.js, lodash, and custom d3-starterkit helpers, appending `rect` elements to an SVG and animating their `width`, `height`, `x`, and `y` attributes via `transition()`. The grid positions are derived from dividing the viewport into a matrix, and each square’s fill color is randomly generated.

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