Lab/Concepts
Concept · our retired homepage · 2026The web can feel alive.
This was roq-tech.com for the month of August 2026. Fifteen hundred particles that assemble into the mark, explode, and re-form in a new colour every three seconds, with ribbons drawn by shaders behind them. It ran on the GPU at sixty frames a second on an ordinary laptop. We moved it here on purpose.
Physics in the shader, not the browser.
Each particle springs toward its place in the logo, gets kicked outward by a "boom", and finds its way back. That physics runs on the GPU through WebGL2 transform feedback, so the page's JavaScript does almost nothing per frame.
Lines that are a function of time.
The ribbons are a triangle strip computed in the vertex shader from one time uniform. One static buffer, four draw calls a frame, no CPU work. On a loaded machine the whole hero stayed locked to the display's refresh.
Premultiplied alpha, learned the hard way.
Translucent WebGL over a page looks washed out unless the canvas uses premultiplied alpha and the shaders output colour times alpha. Two calibration passes went wrong before the blending model was the fix. It's in the studio's rules now.
Why it moved here
The right hero for the wrong visitor.
The people who buy websites from us run established businesses. They open a studio's homepage to answer three questions: what do you do, who have you done it for, can I trust you. The particle hero answered none of them, and it impressed designers, who aren't the buyer.
It also cost points in Google's speed test, which runs without a GPU, at exactly the moment our outreach was quoting that test. So the homepage became the proof-first page you came from, and this became a concept. Nothing about the engineering was wrong. The audience was.
Want a site that moves like this?
When the brief calls for it, we build it. Fixed quotes in writing.