Gallery pattern
Formation Cards
One deck of cards that rearranges into circle, wave, grid, fan and 3D depth.
This is the real effect, not a video. Scroll, drag and click inside it.
Formation Cards treats a dozen portraits as one deck and keeps rearranging it. A click turns the ring into a wave, the wave into a staggered wall, the wall into a grid, a hand held fan, or a room of cards floating at different depths. In the round formations the deck becomes a wheel you can grab and throw, and it keeps spinning with real momentum.
When to use it
Dressed here as a Manchester portrait studio, it fits any brand built on faces or a tight set of cards: photographers, casting agencies, team pages, speaker line ups, trading card drops. It is a full screen piece, best as the centrepiece of a portfolio or people page rather than a widget in a corner.
Why it works
One set of cards shown six ways says versatility without a word of copy. The formations give visitors a reason to keep clicking, and the throwable wheel gives them a reason to stay, because momentum you can feel is the difference between a layout and a toy. Every mode is still the same twelve faces, so the work stays the star.