I have a project where I need to make a few individual stars, in fixed locations, that will twinkle periodically. The way this should look exactly is not very precise, but the star is probably not so much needing to look realistic, as it needs to look like a star with little rays coming out. I’m wondering if there isn’t a way to do this programatically, with javascript/jquery, and perhaps the HTML5 canvas element, or perhaps webkit animation with CSS. I have had a couple of ideas, for example to have two or perhaps more divs with layered backgrounds with transparent elements rotating on top of each other in different directions, in a way that might generate a kind of twinkle with rays. Obviously, an easier way would be to use some animated star gifs if I can make one that looks right. In any case, there’s obviously many ways to go about this, especially because the right solution is so open-ended and dependent on how we want it to look, but I thought I’d ask here to see if any of you wise people have come across any good examples of code that does in any which way, or have any other suggestions about possible techniques… It’s an interesting challenge after all!
