creepyface

Creepy Face

Creepy Face is a little JavaScript tool (<3K minified & gzipped) for making your face follow the mouse (or fingers). It is ideal for resumes, team presentation sites, etc...

Usage

Creepy Face works out-of-the-box via a declarative data-attribute API.

1. Take a bunch of pictures of yourself looking at different directions.

2. Create a standard <img> tag like the following using the pictures taken in step 1:

   <img
     data-creepy
     src="img/face/serious.jpg"
     data-src-hover="img/face/crazy.jpg"
     data-src-look-0="img/face/north.jpg"
     data-src-look-45="img/face/north-east.jpg"
     data-src-look-90="img/face/east.jpg"
     data-src-look-135="img/face/south-east.jpg"
     data-src-look-180="img/face/south.jpg"
     data-src-look-225="img/face/south-west.jpg"
     data-src-look-270="img/face/west.jpg"
     data-src-look-315="img/face/north-west.jpg"
   />
   

   The data-src-look specify degrees (0 - 360).

3. Include creepyface script at the end of your page:

   <script type="text/javascript" src="creepyface.umd.js"></script>
   

   Creepy Face will automatically detect your image (thanks to the data-creepy attribute) and make it follow the mouse or fingers depending on which device you are.

   You can add as many creepy faces as you want as long as they all have the data-creepy attribute.

Advanced usage

For more advanced use cases Creepy Face can also be set up via a programmatic API:

import creepyFace from 'creepyface'

const faceImg = document.querySelector('img#face')

const cancel = creepyFace(faceImg, {
  hover: 'img/face/crazy.jpg', // Image URL to display on hover
  looks: [ // Each of the images looking at a given direction
    {angle:   0, src: 'img/face/north.jpg'},
    {angle:  45, src: 'img/face/north-east.jpg'},
    {angle:  90, src: 'img/face/east.jpg'},
    {angle: 135, src: 'img/face/south-east.jpg'},
    {angle: 180, src: 'img/face/south.jpg'},
    {angle: 225, src: 'img/face/south-west.jpg'},
    {angle: 270, src: 'img/face/west.jpg'},
    {angle: 315, src: 'img/face/north-west.jpg'}
  ],
  timeToDefault: 1000 // Time (in ms) to show back the default image after no input is detected
})

// at some point
cancel() // will restore the original image and stop creepyface

Developing

• npm start will spin up a local server with the sample page watching your file changes.
• npm test will run the tests.
• npm run build will generate the production scripts under the dist folder.

Contributing

Please feel free to create issues and / or submit pull requests. For the latter, test cases are very welcome.