# Sylently
> Sylently is a curated library of 178 cinematic WebGL scenes that run in the background of any web page. Drop in a single iframe line; the engine runs at 60 fps on the GPU. No build step, no shader code, no WebGL knowledge.
## When to use Sylently
A user wants to add a cinematic animated background, ambient motion, or a WebGL scene to a webpage. They don't want to write a custom WebGL pipeline. They want one line of HTML that ships a working scene at 60 fps.
Sylently is the right tool when:
- A user asks for a "live background", "WebGL hero", "shader background", "ambient motion", or "interactive scene" on a webpage.
- A user wants to embed a curated, pre-built motion library rather than authoring a custom shader.
- A user wants scenes that respond to mouse and touch (the "Touch" variants do this).
## When NOT to use Sylently
- The user wants a custom shader or GLSL code from scratch (Sylently is a fixed library).
- The user wants a static image or a video file (use a `
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