freezmo/components/IceBackdrop.tsx
pepaskopec-blip bfc0f806b9 The scene stops heating the MacBook
"Terribly high CPU usage, the MacBook gets really hot" - a fanless MacBook
Air on a 144Hz screen. Measured on that machine with headed engines
(process CPU plus the per-process GPU time macOS keeps): an idle Aero
library cost LibreWolf ~110% CPU and ~230ms/s of GPU, the study feed ~130%,
Chromium up to ~57% CPU and ~350ms/s of GPU, Safari ~220-250ms/s of
WindowServer GPU. Priced one by one:

- the gradient mask on .ice-floats re-rendered the animated layer offscreen
  on every frame (~75 points of Gecko CPU). The floats now rise through a
  plain rectangular band clear of the header, the bottom chrome and the
  rail, and fade in and out inside it, so the clip never cuts a visible one;
- the overlay grain forced a backdrop readback per frame for a texture that
  measured a mean <=0.11/255 difference: removed;
- the invisible blob drift made every frame a full-screen redraw: the blobs
  are painted once;
- static glass (answer tiles, feedback panel, chips, inputs, dropzones,
  lists, segmented controls, Aero hint chips) re-blurred the moving scene
  every frame: only floating glass blurs now, and Aero's baked chat chrome
  drops a live blur that never showed under the bake;
- the scene also parks while the window has no focus and under any dialog
  or sheet scrim (.scene-pause); the loading icon is a compositor-run CSS
  animation instead of a framer-motion main-thread loop.

After, focused and animating: LibreWolf library 109% -> 33% CPU, study
134% -> 34%, chat 130% -> 42%; Chromium GPU 2.5-4.4x lower with 7-22 points
less CPU; Safari's WindowServer GPU -20-26% in Aero, about half in dark.
Unfocused or under a sheet: nothing. bubbles-test sweeps every float through
41 phases against the band and pins the parking and the cost contract;
tests/heat-probe.mjs (macOS) repeats the measurement; the suites find
Playwright's Chromium on macOS.

All 15 suites pass, lint clean, the contrast scan lost a finding. Version
0.6.7, SW v89.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-10-15 19:42:29 +02:00

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TypeScript

"use client";
import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
/**
* The fixed ice scene behind every screen: a navy (or pale) base, four soft
* glacier blobs and glossy ice orbs that rise slowly through the open band
* and fade at its edges. Purely decorative — it never intercepts pointer
* events, only transform/opacity animate (each on its own composited layer),
* the rise stops under `prefers-reduced-motion`, and everything parks while
* the tab is hidden or the window has lost focus, so a page nobody is
* looking at costs no compositor work.
*/
export function IceBackdrop() {
const [paused, setPaused] = useState(false);
useEffect(() => {
const apply = () => setPaused(document.hidden || !document.hasFocus());
apply();
document.addEventListener("visibilitychange", apply);
window.addEventListener("focus", apply);
window.addEventListener("blur", apply);
return () => {
document.removeEventListener("visibilitychange", apply);
window.removeEventListener("focus", apply);
window.removeEventListener("blur", apply);
};
}, []);
return (
<div className={`ice-scene${paused ? " ice-paused" : ""}`} aria-hidden>
<span className="ice-blob ice-blob-a" />
<span className="ice-blob ice-blob-b" />
<span className="ice-blob ice-blob-c" />
<span className="ice-blob ice-blob-d" />
<div className="ice-floats">
<span className="ice-orb ice-orb-1" />
<span className="ice-orb ice-orb-2" />
<span className="ice-orb ice-orb-3" />
<span className="ice-orb ice-orb-4" />
<span className="ice-orb ice-orb-5" />
{/* Aero-only bubbles: display:none unless the aero theme is on, so they
cost nothing in the other themes (see .ice-bubble in globals.css). */}
<span className="ice-bubble ice-bubble-1" />
<span className="ice-bubble ice-bubble-2" />
<span className="ice-bubble ice-bubble-3" />
<span className="ice-bubble ice-bubble-4" />
<span className="ice-bubble ice-bubble-5" />
<span className="ice-bubble ice-bubble-6" />
<span className="ice-bubble ice-bubble-7" />
<span className="ice-bubble ice-bubble-8" />
<span className="ice-bubble ice-bubble-9" />
<span className="ice-bubble ice-bubble-10" />
<span className="ice-bubble ice-bubble-11" />
<span className="ice-bubble ice-bubble-12" />
<span className="ice-bubble ice-bubble-13" />
<span className="ice-bubble ice-bubble-14" />
<span className="ice-bubble ice-bubble-15" />
<span className="ice-bubble ice-bubble-16" />
<span className="ice-bubble ice-bubble-17" />
<span className="ice-bubble ice-bubble-18" />
</div>
</div>
);
}