Trianglify — jQuery Low-Poly Background Plugin

Overview

The first piece of publicly distributed software. Built to solve a specific visual need — an animated low-poly hero background for a personal blog — rather than adapting an existing particle library. The plugin seeds random points across a canvas, connects them into a triangle mesh, and animates the mesh by continuously nudging point positions per frame. Published on eager.io, which curated plugins and required a proper manifest before listing.

Tech

A standard jQuery plugin pattern registers a method on $.fn that accepts an options object. The HTML5 Canvas 2D API renders the triangle mesh each animation frame. Point geometry and per-triangle colour assignment are computed in vanilla ES5 JavaScript. No bundler — single-file distribution through the eager.io manifest format.