Looks like they're using the canvas element, which I won't pretend to understand -- however, the most recent post on css-tricks.com happens to cover the canvas element. :)
actually ccc630 it doesn't look like he is using canvas if you look at the source. Akurtula i think he's just using hover states to trigger css3 transitions and transformations, the rotation and opacity ones to be exact. Does that help.
my question would be - 'Is using the canvas to create the effect better or would simple transitions be just as good because I have no clue about the canvas and after viewing the latest snake example i have maybe 5% of a clue :P
on this website: http://www.beautifulexplorer.com/main.html
when you hover over the images you get a circular animation, also the (middle) camera icon scales larger
I seen this on a video game and now here
hope you could give me some suggestions to what I can read (any tutorial) where I could learn to get this effect.
I tried to inspect the effect with firebug, but I can't seem to make any thing of it.
Hope to could help - thanks