Floating Spaceship

I saw something floating in one of the websites,

and bazinga! Today shall be the day I conquer CSS animation. Starting with a space ship. 🚀

We are going to explore keyframes and animation and transform and translateY.

There are a few types of animation-timing-function:

ease: Slow start, then fast, then ends slowly   
ease-in: Slow start 
ease-out: Slow end  
ease-in-out: Slow start and a slow end

Know more at w3schools.

The basic idea in HTML and CSS,

DEMO IN A WEB BROWSER

The difference is too subtle for my eyes. Same same but different. Okthxbye.

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Comments

[Ahmed Musallam]

This is very cool!!

I forked it and switched the animation time to 1s instead of 2s and translateY to 0.5rem instead of 1rem. I don't know why, but it speaks to me more when it's faster with a shorter travel path, makes it look like it hovering :)

codepen.io/anon/pen/eLMQYP

[ann lin]

Nice! Definitely, I made it to 2s so we can see the difference between different timing-function clearer. Shorter distance makes it subtle and more natural.

[Ben Halpern]

Mesmerizing

[ann lin]

😳