Holiday Map

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Holiday Map

This holiday season, we wanted to share some of our favorite West Chelsea places with our friends and clients, so we put together a handy-dandy interactive guide as well as created a limited-edition FOUR32C holiday shopping tote to hold your holiday haul!

– FOUR32C
Background

Holiday Cheer from FOUR32C

The folks from FOUR32C reached out to me to help create an experience that could be shared to friends & clients.

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// this.blocks is an array of THREE.CSS3DObject's
const flipBlocks = (blocks = []) => {
    blocks.forEach((block, index) => {
        const { rotation } = block;
        const isX = Math.round(Math.random()) === 1;
        const tweenObj = {
            x: isX ? MathPI * 2 : rotation.x,
            y: isX ? rotation.y : MathPI * 2,
            ease: Back.easeOut,
            delay: index * 0.015
        }
        TweenMax.to(rotation, 1.4, tweenObj);
    });
}
Like butter

Smooooooth Animations

By using the Three.js CSS3DRenderer, performance for the “blocks” were easily at 60 fps.

K.I.S.S.

Page.js

Making routing super straightforward in ~1200 bytes by the folks from VisionMedia.

const handleViewChangeStart = (context, next) => {
    const {
        name
    } = currentView;
    if (currentView) {
        if (context.path.search(/\/question\//g) === -1
            || context.path.search(/\/map\//g) === -1) {
                currentView.playOut();
            }
        if (currentView.name !== undefined) {
            document.body.classList.remove(currentView.name);
        };
    }
    next();
}
const handleViewChangeComplete = () => {
    const {
        name
    } = currentView;
    if (name !== undefined) {
        document.body.classList.add(name);
    };
}
const quiz = (context, next) => {
    // create & || provide view with any updated data
    const { id } = context.params;
}
const map = (context, next) => {
    // create & || provide view with any updated data
    const { id } = context.params;
}
const intro = (context, next) => {
    // create & || provide view with any updated data
}
page('/quiz/question/:id', handleViewChangeStart, quiz, handleViewChangeComplete);
page('/map', handleViewChangeStart, map, handleViewChangeComplete);
page('/map/:id', handleViewChangeStart, map, handleViewChangeComplete);
page('*', handleViewChangeStart, intro, handleViewChangeComplete);

The Result

Holiday Map

Launch Project
The Tech

Loading up the toolbox

I am a huge fan of GSAP all the way back from the days of Flash. With the exception of three.js the rest of the technologies I used were standard: HTML5, SCSS, Webpack, and JSON for data-modeling.