Thinking Orbs

Dotted thought orbs for AI and agent interfaces.

Six loading states tuned by hand, one per verb an agent can be doing: working, searching, solving, listening, composing and shaping. Each is its own animation — particles on tilted orbits, a meridian sweeping a dotted globe, bands that scramble and click back — drawn with plain 2D canvas arcs, without WebGL or filters, so the pixels are the same in every browser. Two sizes that are separate designs and not one scaled: 64 for chat-avatar scale, 20 for inline text. Monochrome, taking its light or dark ink from the host project.