Cursor trail velocity: Step-by-step tutorial
Matt Perry
In this tutorial, we're going to build the Cursor trail velocity example step-by-step.
This example is rated 3/5 difficulty, which means we assume you're already quite familiar with Motion (and JavaScript in general).
Here's a live demo of the example we're going to be creating:
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Introduction
The Cursor trail velocity example shows how to spawn images as the user's cursor moves around the screen.
This example is a twist on the original Cursor trail example, where the pointer velocity is recorded at the moment of image spawn and this is fed into a type: "inertia" animation.
