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Pixelate-in Image
An image that resolves from coarse blocks to full detail: it starts as a 6-by-4 mosaic and halves the block size step by step until the real pixels arrive, with a short hold on each step so the eye reads the jump. Replay runs the resolve again; hover re-pixelates and resolves.
Placeholder photos by Dan Meyers on Unsplash. Replace them with your own before launch.
The mechanic
Steps: block 64 → 32 → 16 → 8 → 4 → 2 → 1 px (image-space), each held 110 ms; for each step the image is drawn at `w / block × h / block` then scaled to the full canvas with `imageSmoothingEnabled = false`. At block 1 the canvas fades out to show the real `<img>` beneath.
How to use it
From prompt to a block in your page.
- 01Try the component
The preview is the shipped element inside a neutral demo page. Hover, click, focus: the one interaction it is about is live.
- 02Pick a palette
Token sets re-tint it live. The prompt carries the one you chose.
- 03Pick your stack
A paste-in snippet, or a component for Next.js, React, Vue, Astro, WordPress, Shopify or Webflow.
- 04Copy the prompt
It quotes the markup, styles and script verbatim with the tokens and the rules that keep it self-contained.
- 05Mount it in your layout
It inherits your page's font and width; the tokens live on :root; several instances share one script.
