The virtual Microscope is a platform for enabling people to view high resolution thin sections of geological samples.

Example of styling for rock samples on Virtual Microscope

This animation was constructed by creating an illustration of a volcano in Adobe Illustrator. I then created the sprite offset in Illustrator so that my artwork resembled an ‘old school’ 35mm film strip of 8 frames. I worked out the CSS3 animation properties on paper.

The spinning animation was made using the same technique.

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