Liquid Mercury Droplet

Installation

Architecture & Shaders

Liquid Mercury Droplet runs entirely on the GPU via Three.js and React Three Fiber.

1. Vertex Displacement: Evaluates a classic 3D Simplex noise field combined with mouse pointer screen-space distance. As the user interacts with the canvas, exponential damping propagates concentric ripples across the sphere mesh surface.
2. Metallic Reflection Fragment: Uses dynamic normal matrix calculations to evaluate a double Blinn-Phong specular lobe, a cubic Fresnel rim equation, and simulated horizon environment reflections with subtle chromatic aberration at grazing angles.
3. Spring Inertia & Presentation Controls: Supports drag and touch orbiting with automatic spring-back snapping.

Usage Guide

1. Import the Component

Import the component into your React or Next.js page:

import { LiquidMercuryDroplet } from "@/components/creative/liquid-mercury-droplet";

2. Implementation Example

Render the component and customize its behavior by passing props:

import { LiquidMercuryDroplet } from "@/components/creative/liquid-mercury-droplet";

export default function Example() {
  return (
    <div className="w-full flex items-center justify-center p-8">
      <LiquidMercuryDroplet
        viscosity{10}
        distortion{10}
        metalness{10}
      />
    </div>
  );
}