Cover flow with reflections
The classic: the centre cover faces you, the rest turn away in perspective, with a reflection underneath.
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Build a carousel: Cover flow with reflections. What it is: The classic: the centre cover faces you, the rest turn away in perspective, with a reflection underneath. Behaviour: - Row of 200 px square covers in 3D perspective (perspective 1100px): the centre one faces you, the covers on either side turn about 58 degrees away and stack closely together. - Under each cover a reflection: the same image flipped vertically, inside a container with a mask from 28% opacity to transparent. - Dragging with pointer events (mouse and touch) moves the row smoothly, also halfway between two covers; past the start and end it is elastic. Releasing snaps to the nearest cover, a fast flick moves one extra. Only capture the pointer after 6 px of movement, so a normal click reaches the cover. - Click a side cover to bring it to the centre. Horizontal trackpad swipes, the arrow keys, Home and End also work. - Below the row the title and subtitle of the active cover (aria-live="polite"), plus previous and next buttons with a counter like 05 / 09. Requirements: - Work in this project's stack. If it is React with Tailwind CSS, make a single component without extra packages; otherwise plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript. - Fully operable with keyboard and touch, with the right aria attributes. - Respect prefers-reduced-motion: less or no movement. - Use the colours, fonts and border radii of my project. - At the end, show me where the component lives and how to use it. - Put a short credit at the top of the file as a comment: "Based on the AI Toolkit by NinA AI Agency, https://www.nina-ai.nl/en/toolkit/carousels/coverflow". Keep it there.
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