liquid translate

A translate control as one piece of liquid glass, on a 1080 × 1080 stage that scales to the window and loops every 12 seconds. Over a sculptural fan of curved violet-to-teal blades, a round glass drop with a languages glyph waits; a pointer presses it and it stretches into a pill (its right end leads, the left follows, a neck pinches and wobbles out), the glyph turns into swap arrows and "Thank you so much" is typed with a blinking caret beside an EN label. Each press on the round button spins the arrows half a turn and runs a sweep of cyan-violet-gold light through the glass from left to right that wipes the old phrase out and the new one in: ES "Muchas gracias", then DE "Vielen Dank", the pill resizing to fit each phrase. A last press folds it back into the drop. The glass is one WebGL fragment shader: an SDF capsule that refracts the backdrop with a gentle lens in the body and a strong, colour-split bend at the rim, a floor glow, a lit inner disc and a rim light; text, Lucide icons and the pointer are drawn on a 2D canvas above it. Every frame comes from one pure render(t) (window.__render(t), window.__MANUAL, ?rec), so any moment can be drawn on its own. Geist, a reduced-motion still.