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This is interesting, but help me understand, does hypercursor not allow animated cursors?
Seems like it should support it?
Instead of each frame of animation being a grid of pixels, each frame is a small collection of math describing the visuals.
But we'd still have frames to use for animation, if we want.
Instead of replacing one PNG for another PNG to make the illusion of movement, we replace one SVG with one SVG instead.