An feColorMatrix pushes the alpha channel to a steep gain, hardening blurred edges into a single liquid silhouette.
Specimen 004 · fluid metal
LIQUID
CHROME
Five metal bodies obey a single point of attraction, merging through a Gaussian colour-matrix filter. The headline above is pure gradient clipped to text — no images, no fonts, no network.
move the pointer · the metal follows and fuses
Each body runs its own critically-damped spring toward a staggered offset of the pointer, so they never arrive together.
A nine-stop vertical gradient clipped to the glyphs fakes a reflected horizon line across the letterforms.
With the pointer idle, each body orbits a slow Lissajous path so the composition never freezes.