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open source google balls

"Google Balls" is a name given to the Google Doodle displayed on the site's homepage on September 7th, 2010 to celebrate the upcoming launch of Google Instant, a new addition to Google that would show relevant search suggestions as you were typing your query.

The doodle itself, formally named the "Google Instant Launch" doodle was an interactive JS-based particle sim depicting the Google logo as several multicolored balls. The balls can be moved by being hovered over by the cursor, or by shaking the browser's window. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuNN...

Fortunately for your sake, the doodle was recreated in HTML5 and open sourced just a day later by Rob Hawkes. Despite this, the doodle would remain mostly in obscurity until the account and domain @/googleballs.com was created, quickly bringing attention to the logo and starting a peculiar trend...

They mean the pic on your corporate login page (: I don’t think that’s getting open sourced