# People make the pattern.

Independent article case study. Domain: website consumer / Design Engineering presentation.

Measured digit strips settle with digit-specific revolutions and durations. Twelve original geometric portrait cards use stable local IDs and container-relative collage positions, then orbit only after the count completes.

## Attribution and evidence

Studied: [Building an Animated Testimonial Hero Using the GSAP Timeline and Dynamic CMS Data](https://tympanus.net/codrops/2026/08/18/building-an-animated-testimonial-hero-using-the-gsap-timeline-and-dynamic-cms-data/), Jonas Arleth. Article SHA-256: 7662accf1e5f92ddd08a601fd44e4ce29a59db97a271ca6dfeb15d119da7ef2c. Analysis SHA-256: 4cbcb644c9af5f89eb3aacc4b521bf4acd613acda1bf0fe27ae3f4d0f25ab11a. Source revision: 868a25dc679f89dd12703d7197e10f70d46ac9f1dd45557b67213d67054595aa. The revision hashes the article/analysis hashes, the analyst principle and code-block evidence references; it identifies studied evidence, not a claim that the original demo executes.

Original acquisition: unresolved. Original license: unverified. originalSourceAcquired: false. Seven public counter/layout fragments and a free generator link are present. No original Webflow/CMS project export was acquired. The optional course sales-page link does not establish paid access to this case study.

No original article prose, code, artwork, source project or screenshot is distributed here. The authored-code MIT notice applies only to the independent implementation. Use independently owned or cleared portrait assets. Keep the demonstrated local dataset distinct from a live CMS integration.

## Initial state and controls

A locally supplied count rolls into place before a cast of original geometric portraits begins its depth loop. Resize the collage without changing its proportions.

The page starts stationary. Play motion, where present, advances this study’s presentation until paused; text, bounce, portrait, orbit, strand and mascot motion loops, while the event composer stops at its endpoint. Scroll studies advance through ordinary document scroll or their chapter buttons. Static view stops time-based motion; manual controls still inspect values. The three scroll studies instead show every chapter in ordinary reading flow. Pointer parallax centers its decorative layers.

Initial control values:

| Control key | Value |
| --- | --- |
| total | 1872 |
| width | 100 |
| speed | 0.6 |

## Running and editing

Open index.html directly. It contains all runtime code and visuals and needs no package install, account, network, remote asset or browser-origin storage. Edit its inline style and script to change the downloaded page. styles.css and script.js are reference copies of the inline source; changing those copies alone does not change the running page. Repository regeneration overwrites index.html and all generated copies, including any manual edits. Keep a separate copy when editing a download. The repository authoring modules in vendor/codrops-article-studies/scenes-*.mjs and runtime.mjs regenerate these copies through node scripts/build-codrops-article-studies.mjs. Repository regeneration also needs the private source evidence; downloaded-page execution does not.

## Verification boundary

This generation passed the captured article/analysis hash checks, exact ID membership, local canonical Markdown anchor/hash checks, implementation-symbol checks, JavaScript parsing, semantic main/title counts, duplicate-ID checks and runtime URL/storage exclusion. The manifest codeFiles entries identify every emitted file by SHA-256. Each code symbol is a searchable named function, not a claimed executed call trace. Proposed checks are in KNOWLEDGE.json. runtime_verified: false. SG artifact capture proves only a recorded initial render; no interactive runtime, keyboard, accessibility, comfort or performance result is claimed.

Manual Chrome interaction is blocked by extension UI in this session. No alternate browser-control route was used. Preview sizing is native responsive width. Initial-render captures are tracked separately at site/artifacts/full-import/preview-posters/index.json and site/artifacts/full-import/preview-posters/visual-review.json in the repository. No capture receipt is bundled with this download. The bounded initial-render matrix requests all 21 studies at 320 pixels and three representative studies at 1280 pixels; the separate poster surface is 640 × 420. The authored CSS also adapts at 375 and 768 pixels, without claiming those widths were captured. A width request does not mean that capture exists or passed. Motion starts on explicit playback; system reduced motion and the Static view switch stop it.

consumer_reference: consumer-reference/agent-native/registry.json