# Heat Shimmer (`.sds-heat-shimmer`)

Subtle heat-distortion skewX + scaleY loop. Text animation in SDS Motion Forge v5.0.0. It loops continuously as soon as the class is applied.

- Page: https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/heat-shimmer/
- Category: Text (https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/categories/text/)
- Animated properties: filter, transform
- Compositor-only: yes
- Needs child elements: no
- Needs per-character spans: no
- JavaScript: none required

## Use it

```html
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@salkomdesignstudio/sds-motion-forge/dist/categories/text.min.css" />

<h1 class="sds-heat-shimmer">Heat Shimmer</h1>
```

## How it works

Plays as soon as the class is applied, looping continuously. It animates filters (blur/brightness) and movement and scale (transform) — compositor-only, so it never causes page reflow. Timing is fixed for this effect, but you can still override animation-duration/timing-function on the element.

## Related

- [Gravity Bounce](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/gravity-bounce/)
- [Gravity Drop](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/gravity-drop/)
- [Heartbeat](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/heartbeat-text/)
- [Highlight Burn](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/highlight-burn/)
- [Hologram Text](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/hologram-text/)
- [Ink Bleed](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/ink-bleed/)