Measured entry

ruixen-scroll-image-tunnel

badgeunclassifiedmotion on file

A client-side React image sequence that pins a stage while scroll progress scales, lifts, and color-grades each photo into view. It ships as a shadcn registry TSX file, uses Motion for animation, Tailwind utility classes for layout and theming, and a local cn helper backed by clsx and tailwind-merge.

Specimen
Motion capture of the mounted demo, recorded by the harness. No audio track.
Harness screenshot of ruixen-scroll-image-tunnel at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of ruixen-scroll-image-tunnel at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of ruixen-scroll-image-tunnel at 1440 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 1440 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.

Measured

Every value below was written by the harness on the run that produced the frames above. None of it is derived from the prose.

Harness measurements recorded for ruixen-scroll-image-tunnel
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal71.5 KB (137.0 KB build, 65.5 KB baseline)
Bare modeFAIL
Provider requiredNO
Demo usedwritten from the component source API

What the harness recorded

BARE BUILD

✗ Build failed in 1m 43s
error during build:
[vite:load-fallback] Could not load <sandbox>/src/lib/utils (imported by src/cut/components/ruixen/scroll-image-tunnel.tsx): ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<sandbox>/src/lib/utils'

Verdict

A focused, production-credible scroll effect with responsive rendering, clean mounting, and a considerate reduced-motion path. It needs a shadcn-style setup: a bare React project fails because the imported local utility alias is absent. Use it for deliberate visual storytelling, not a general gallery.

Use it if

  • You need an editorial or portfolio image reveal driven by page or panel scrolling.
  • Your project already uses Tailwind and can absorb a shadcn registry component.
  • You want a reduced-motion fallback that presents the images as a static grid.
  • You can provide meaningful alt text and images suited to aggressive cropping.

Skip it if

  • The images must remain fully visible without object-cover cropping.
  • Your page cannot dedicate a long scroll region to a decorative sequence.
  • You need a dependency-light gallery without a runtime animation library.
  • Your non-shadcn codebase cannot add Tailwind tokens, aliases, and a cn utility.

Install

Installation record for ruixen-scroll-image-tunnel
Declared dependenciesmotion, clsx, tailwind-merge
Missing on installnone
Bare installfails once the shadcn-style helpers are removed, so it needs that setup
Providerno provider required in the harness

In a non-shadcn project, add Motion, Tailwind, clsx, and tailwind-merge; configure the source alias; create the local cn helper; and define the background, muted, and muted-foreground theme utilities used by the component. Keep it client-rendered and ensure ResizeObserver is available for tracked panels.

Source and credit

This page is a review, not a copy. The component source lives with its author and this site does not republish it. Read the license before you use anything.

Alternatives

Other published entries for the badge pattern, ordered by what they measured: mounts first, then clean axe scans, then bare-mode passes, then the smaller bundle.