Google doodle for Martha Graham ‘s 117th birthday is an dancing animation that carves up google logo in a dancing way.
Martha Graham : American dancer choreographer regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance.
The doodle takes some time to load on web page as the large css3 sprite needs to load completely.The entire animation is css3 sprite technique to hide the large image at specific parts to create animation effect.
These image artwork is done by the famous artist Ryan Woodward
Before the css3 sprite could completely load the sprite a static image will be loaded.
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