Find the technique, not the trend.

A bident built by subtraction — unlit black prongs with tone mapping disabled, and a simplex vortex between them that the cursor drags like a hand through smoke.

A trident where a single transmission material at an index of refraction of 2.42 does all the work, backed by 400 instanced cavitation bubbles it exists to distort.

An object with no vertices — a signed distance field marched per pixel, with the step budget exposed so the exact moment quality is bought back is visible.

One RAF writes --scroll-progress and --scroll-velocity; every atmosphere and stage reads the bus without registering listeners.

Parallax depth without a renderer — stacked planes, scroll velocity, and grain that still reads when WebGL never arms.

Four translucent planes at different parallax depths producing depth with no canvas, no shader, and no main-thread cost.

A named film layer that survives view transitions and never becomes a second animation competing with the aura.