Pensive — component for backgrounds & gradients (react)

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A grainy cyan and violet spiral slowly uncoiling on a periwinkle field

• Install: npm i @shadergradient/react @react-three/fiber three three-stdlib camera-controls
• Registry: shadergradient · Framework: react · License: MIT
• Docs and preview: https://shadergradient.co/customize
• Source: https://github.com/ruucm/shadergradient/blob/main/packages/shadergradient/src/presets.ts#L52
• Example: https://skills.varg.ai/previews/lib-shadergradient-pensive.mp4?v=301208 (Rendered by varg from the library’s own code (ShaderGradient · rendered by varg))
• 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 the ShaderGradient "Pensive" preset (preset 01 on https://shadergradient.co/customize, MIT; exported as presets.pensive from @shadergradient/react, source github.com/ruucm/shadergradient/blob/main/packages/shadergradient/src/presets.ts) as a moody full-frame background for a quote, a reflective voiceover or an end card. Install @shadergradient/react with @react-three/fiber and three, then render <ShaderGradientCanvas style={{position:'absolute',inset:0}} lazyLoad={false} pixelDensity={1}> with <ShaderGradient {...presets.pensive.props} /> inside. To make it frame-exact, override animate="off" and pass uTime={seconds} (the shader multiplies it by uSpeed 0.3), set enableTransition={false} so the camera starts in place, and let R3F draw once before each frame is captured. Recolor with color1–color3, raise uAmplitude for deeper folds or lower it for a calmer surface, and adjust cameraZoom (12.5 by default) to move closer or further from the sphere.

Used in

• Year in review / Wrapped
• Lyric video
• Karaoke video
• Logo sting
• Title sequence
• Brand guidelines film
• Stream overlay package
• Shader loop

More backgrounds & gradients

• Aurora — npx hyperframes add aurora
• Aurora Drift — npx hyperframes add aurora-drift
• Flowing Gradient — npx hyperframes add flowing-gradient
• Mesh Gradient — npx hyperframes add mesh-gradient
• Mesh Gradient Background — npx hyperframes add mesh-gradient-bg
• Minimal Gradient Background — npx hyperframes add mk-background