Merge floating particles into WebGL shader and fix color picker clipping

Remove overflow:hidden from .card and .template-card that was clipping
the color picker popover. Combine noise field + particle glow into a
single GPU shader pass (40 drifting particles as uniforms).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

server/src/wled_controller/static/css/cards.css

@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ section {
     border-radius: 8px;
     padding: 12px 20px 20px;
     position: relative;
-    overflow: hidden;
     transition: transform 0.2s ease, box-shadow 0.2s ease, border-color 0.2s ease;
     display: flex;
     flex-direction: column;

server/src/wled_controller/static/css/streams.css

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
     border: 1px solid var(--border-color);
     border-radius: 8px;
     padding: 16px;
-    overflow: hidden;
     transition: box-shadow 0.2s ease, transform 0.2s ease;
     display: flex;
     flex-direction: column;

server/src/wled_controller/static/js/core/bg-anim.js

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 /**
- * Ambient background animation — WebGL shader.
+ * Ambient background animation — WebGL shader + floating particles.
  *
- * Renders a smooth flowing noise field with accent-colored highlights.
+ * Renders a smooth flowing noise field with accent-colored highlights
- * GPU-accelerated, no banding, very lightweight.
+ * plus drifting glowing particles, all in a single GPU shader pass.
  */
 
+const PARTICLE_COUNT = 40;
+
 const VERT_SRC = `
 attribute vec2 a_pos;
 void main() { gl_Position = vec4(a_pos, 0.0, 1.0); }
@@ -16,8 +18,9 @@ uniform float u_time;
 uniform vec2  u_res;
 uniform vec3  u_accent;
 uniform vec3  u_bg;
+uniform vec3  u_particles[${PARTICLE_COUNT}]; // xy = position (0-1), z = radius
 
-// Simplex-style noise (compact hash-based)
+// Simplex-style noise
 vec3 mod289(vec3 x) { return x - floor(x * (1.0/289.0)) * 289.0; }
 vec2 mod289(vec2 x) { return x - floor(x * (1.0/289.0)) * 289.0; }
 vec3 permute(vec3 x) { return mod289(((x*34.0)+1.0)*x); }
@@ -59,31 +62,76 @@ void main() {
 
     float n = n1 * 0.5 + n2 * 0.3 + n3 * 0.2;
 
-    // Map noise to a soft glow: only show the bright peaks
+    // Map noise to a soft glow
     float glow = smoothstep(0.05, 0.6, n);
 
-    // Create two accent-derived colors with hue shift
+    // Two accent-derived colors
     vec3 col1 = u_accent;
-    vec3 col2 = u_accent.gbr;  // channel rotation for variety
+    vec3 col2 = u_accent.gbr;
 
-    // Mix between the two colors based on second noise layer
     float colorMix = n2 * 0.5 + 0.5;
     vec3 color = mix(col1, col2, colorMix);
 
-    // Final: blend colored glow onto background
+    // Noise background
     vec3 result = mix(u_bg, u_bg + color * 0.6, glow * 0.14);
 
+    // Floating particles — accumulate glow from each
+    float particleGlow = 0.0;
+    float particleColor = 0.0;
+    for (int i = 0; i < ${PARTICLE_COUNT}; i++) {
+        vec2 ppos = u_particles[i].xy;
+        float pradius = u_particles[i].z;
+        // Particle position in aspect-corrected space
+        vec2 pp = vec2(ppos.x * aspect, ppos.y);
+        float d = length(p - pp);
+        float g = pradius / (d * d * 800.0 + pradius);
+        particleGlow += g;
+        // Alternate color based on index parity (use float comparison)
+        particleColor += g * step(0.5, fract(float(i) * 0.5));
+    }
+
+    // Mix particle colors: accent and white-ish accent
+    vec3 pCol = mix(u_accent, mix(u_accent, vec3(1.0), 0.5), particleColor / max(particleGlow, 0.001));
+    result += pCol * particleGlow * 0.5;
+
     gl_FragColor = vec4(result, 1.0);
 }
 `;
 
 let _canvas, _gl, _prog;
-let _uTime, _uRes, _uAccent, _uBg;
+let _uTime, _uRes, _uAccent, _uBg, _uParticles;
 let _raf = null;
 let _startTime = 0;
 let _accent = [76 / 255, 175 / 255, 80 / 255];
 let _bgColor = [26 / 255, 26 / 255, 26 / 255];
 
+// Particle state (CPU-side, positions in 0..1 UV space)
+const _particles = [];
+
+function _initParticles() {
+    _particles.length = 0;
+    for (let i = 0; i < PARTICLE_COUNT; i++) {
+        _particles.push({
+            x: Math.random(),
+            y: Math.random(),
+            vx: (Math.random() - 0.5) * 0.0002,
+            vy: 0.0001 + Math.random() * 0.0003,
+            r: 0.003 + Math.random() * 0.006,
+        });
+    }
+}
+
+function _updateParticles() {
+    for (const p of _particles) {
+        p.x += p.vx;
+        p.y += p.vy;
+        // Wrap around
+        if (p.y > 1.05) { p.y = -0.05; p.x = Math.random(); }
+        if (p.x < -0.05) p.x = 1.05;
+        if (p.x > 1.05) p.x = -0.05;
+    }
+}
+
 function _compile(gl, type, src) {
     const s = gl.createShader(type);
     gl.shaderSource(s, src);
@@ -126,15 +174,17 @@ function _initGL() {
     _uRes = gl.getUniformLocation(_prog, 'u_res');
     _uAccent = gl.getUniformLocation(_prog, 'u_accent');
     _uBg = gl.getUniformLocation(_prog, 'u_bg');
+    _uParticles = [];
+    for (let i = 0; i < PARTICLE_COUNT; i++) {
+        _uParticles.push(gl.getUniformLocation(_prog, `u_particles[${i}]`));
+    }
 
     return true;
 }
 
 function _resize() {
-    // Render at half resolution for performance
+    const w = Math.round(window.innerWidth * 0.5);
-    const dpr = Math.min(window.devicePixelRatio || 1, 1);
+    const h = Math.round(window.innerHeight * 0.5);
-    const w = Math.round(window.innerWidth * dpr * 0.5);
-    const h = Math.round(window.innerHeight * dpr * 0.5);
     _canvas.width = w;
     _canvas.height = h;
     if (_gl) _gl.viewport(0, 0, w, h);
@@ -145,12 +195,19 @@ function _draw(time) {
     const gl = _gl;
     if (!gl) return;
 
+    _updateParticles();
+
     const t = (time - _startTime) * 0.001;
     gl.uniform1f(_uTime, t);
     gl.uniform2f(_uRes, _canvas.width, _canvas.height);
     gl.uniform3f(_uAccent, _accent[0], _accent[1], _accent[2]);
     gl.uniform3f(_uBg, _bgColor[0], _bgColor[1], _bgColor[2]);
 
+    for (let i = 0; i < PARTICLE_COUNT; i++) {
+        const p = _particles[i];
+        gl.uniform3f(_uParticles[i], p.x, p.y, p.r);
+    }
+
     gl.drawArrays(gl.TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4);
 }
 
@@ -158,6 +215,7 @@ function _start() {
     if (_raf) return;
     if (!_gl && !_initGL()) return;
     _resize();
+    _initParticles();
     _startTime = performance.now();
     _raf = requestAnimationFrame(_draw);
 }