creepyface

Creepyface ·

Creepyface is a little JavaScript tool (<4K minified & gzipped) that makes your face look at the mouse (or fingers). It is ideal for resumes, team presentation sites, etc...

Demo

Usage

The simplest way to create your Creepyface is by using our wizard.

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If you want to customize it even more you can use our 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 you just took:

   <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 attributes must be set to degrees (0 - 360).

3. Include Creepyface script in your page:

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

   Creepyface will automatically detect your image (thanks to the data-creepy attribute) and make it look at the mouse or fingers depending on which device you are using.

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

   If you want to stop Creepyface on a given image:

   creepyface.cancel(document.querySelector('img'))
   

Advanced usage

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

import creepyface from 'creepyface'

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

const cancel = creepyface(faceImg, {
  throttle: 100, // Number of milliseconds to wait between src updates
  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.

License

MIT, see LICENSE for details.