Tropical Heat
Heat shimmer distortion with chromatic aberration and tropical color blooms.
What is Tropical Heat?
Tropical Heat is a free WebGL web effect in the TappyPrism library. Heat shimmer distortion with chromatic aberration and tropical color blooms. It is rendered on the GPU by a fragment shader, so it costs almost nothing on the CPU and works well as a full-screen background. It ships as a single self-contained HTML file (tropical-heat.html) with zero dependencies — no npm package, no framework, no build step. It exposes 2 live parameters — Heat Intensity, Color Vibrancy — adjustable in the browser or at runtime.
Parameters
| Parameter | Key | Range | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heat Intensity | HEAT_INTENSITY | 0.2 – 2.5 | 1 |
| Color Vibrancy | COLOR_VIBRANCY | 0.3 – 1.5 | 0.8 |
How to add Tropical Heat to your page
- Download the standalone file tropical-heat.html and copy its source into your project.
- Or embed it as a background iframe:
<iframe src="https://prism.tappypotato.com/fx/tropical-heat.html" style="position:fixed;inset:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;z-index:-1" title="Tropical Heat"></iframe> - Tune it at runtime with postMessage:
iframe.contentWindow.postMessage({ type: 'param', name: 'HEAT_INTENSITY', value: 1 }, '*');
Frequently asked questions
What is Tropical Heat?
Tropical Heat is a free WebGL web effect in the TappyPrism library. Heat shimmer distortion with chromatic aberration and tropical color blooms. It is rendered on the GPU by a fragment shader, so it costs almost nothing on the CPU and works well as a full-screen background. It ships as a single self-contained HTML file (tropical-heat.html) with zero dependencies — no npm package, no framework, no build step. It exposes 2 live parameters — Heat Intensity, Color Vibrancy — adjustable in the browser or at runtime.
How do I add Tropical Heat to my website?
Download the standalone file at https://prism.tappypotato.com/fx/tropical-heat.html and copy its source into your page, or embed it as a background iframe: <iframe src="https://prism.tappypotato.com/fx/tropical-heat.html" style="position:fixed;inset:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;z-index:-1" title="Tropical Heat"></iframe>. Tune it live with postMessage, e.g. iframe.contentWindow.postMessage({ type: 'param', name: 'HEAT_INTENSITY', value: 1 }, '*').