# sirxemic/jquery.ripples

Add a water ripple effect to your background using WebGL.

Repository: https://github.com/sirxemic/jquery.ripples
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jqueryripples
Homepage: https://sirxemic.github.io/jquery.ripples/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2021-10-05T00:29:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4705, "days_push": 1794, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1132, forks 427 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:42.711542+00:00)

## What it is
A jQuery plugin that adds an interactive water ripple effect to HTML element background images using WebGL. It simulates ripples triggered by cursor interaction or programmatically added drops.

## Use cases
- add water ripple effect to background images
- make static CSS backgrounds interactive
- create cursor-triggered ripple animations on a webpage
- programmatically add water drops to a page background
- add WebGL visual effects to a jQuery site

## When to choose
- you use jQuery and want a quick, dependency-light interactive background effect
- you want a WebGL water ripple without writing shader code
- your background images are same-origin and you need a simple drop-in plugin

## When to avoid
- your project does not use jQuery
- you need effects on cross-origin images or without the OES_texture_float WebGL extension
- you need a modern framework (React/Vue) component or maintained active development
- you need high performance on low-end devices, since the simulation can be GPU-intensive

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: animation, graphics, ui-components
- domain: web-development, frontend, graphics
- platform: browser
- tags: jquery-plugin, webgl, water-ripple-effect, background-effect, interactive-graphics, javascript

## Member repositories
- sirxemic/jquery.ripples (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:42.711542+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:37:59.298679+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sirxemic/jquery.ripples (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:42.711542+00:00, sha d21abc03a205)
  - homepage: https://sirxemic.github.io/jquery.ripples/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:42:27.561842+00:00, sha 35351ad0660e)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/jquery.ripples (fetched 2026-08-29T12:42:27.565881+00:00, sha f66792fd6994)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.