Cursor Trail Reveal — No GSAP, No Motion (Pure CSS Transitions & requestAnimationFrame)

Every time someone looks at CursorTrailReveal, the first question is the same: "Framer Motion? GSAP?" Neither. The entire effect — images popping out along the cursor path, horizontal strips wiping open one by one, running smooth at 60fps — is built with requestAnimationFrame + CSS transitions + clip-path polygon(). Not a single animation library import. Move your cursor over the target area and an image appears at the cursor position, sliding gently in the direction you're heading. The image do