# Retro Grid — component for backgrounds & gradients (react)

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Synthwave floor grid in perspective rolling toward the viewer under a pink-to-orange title

- **Install:** `npx shadcn@latest add @magicui/retro-grid`
- **Registry:** magic-ui · **Framework:** react · **License:** MIT
- **Docs and preview:** https://magicui.design/docs/components/retro-grid
- **Source:** https://github.com/magicuidesign/magicui/blob/main/apps/www/registry/magicui/retro-grid.tsx
- **Example:** https://skills.varg.ai/previews/lib-magic-ui-retro-grid.mp4?v=72958 (Captured from the library’s own demo page (Magic UI))
- **Time:** Drive from the frame. Runs on its own clock (requestAnimationFrame, timers, springs or CSS). Drive it from frame / fps before rendering, or the render drifts.
- **Runs:** local render, free
- **Aspect:** any

## Prompt that renders it frame-exact

Use Retro Grid from Magic UI (https://magicui.design/docs/components/retro-grid, MIT) as the floor of a full-frame background with a title above the horizon. It is a WebGL shader with a u_time uniform that requestAnimationFrame feeds from the clock, plus a CSS scroll as a fallback. For a render, set u_time from the composition (frame / fps in Remotion, the paused timeline's time in HyperFrames) and draw once per frame. Set angle (tilt), cellSize, opacity and the light and dark line colours from the brand; a neon gradient headline above it is the classic look.

## Used in

- [Year in review / Wrapped](https://skills.varg.ai/video/wrapped.md)
- [Lyric video](https://skills.varg.ai/video/lyric-video.md)
- [Karaoke video](https://skills.varg.ai/video/karaoke.md)
- [Logo sting](https://skills.varg.ai/video/logo-sting.md)
- [Title sequence](https://skills.varg.ai/video/title-sequence.md)
- [Brand guidelines film](https://skills.varg.ai/video/brand-guidelines.md)
- [Stream overlay package](https://skills.varg.ai/video/stream-overlay.md)
- [Shader loop](https://skills.varg.ai/video/shader-loop.md)

## More backgrounds & gradients

- [Aurora](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.aurora.md) — `npx hyperframes add aurora`
- [Aurora Drift](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.aurora-drift.md) — `npx hyperframes add aurora-drift`
- [Flowing Gradient](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.flowing-gradient.md) — `npx hyperframes add flowing-gradient`
- [Mesh Gradient](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.mesh-gradient.md) — `npx hyperframes add mesh-gradient`
- [Mesh Gradient Background](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.mesh-gradient-bg.md) — `npx hyperframes add mesh-gradient-bg`
- [Minimal Gradient Background](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.mk-background.md) — `npx hyperframes add mk-background`