css animations - How to animate a radial-gradient using CSS?

Question

I am trying to create a radial-gradient shine affect to a div box and I am unsure whats the best way of doing so. I Have found no resources of achieving what I want to achieve; just shine affects which look like overlay.

Most of the examples I have found looks like this http://jsfiddle.net/nqQc7/512/.

Below I have displayed what I am trying to create.

#shine-div {
  height: 30vh;
  width: 60vw;
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-left: auto;
  border-radius: 10px;
  /*background: radial-gradient(ellipse farthest-corner at right top, #FFFFFF 0%, #ffb3ff 8%, #ff33ff 25%, #800080 62.5%, #b300b3 100%);*/
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
  color: white;
  font-weight: bold;
  animation: colorChange 5s infinite;
}

@keyframes colorChange {
  0% {
    background: radial-gradient(ellipse farthest-corner at left top, #FFFFFF 0%, #ffb3ff 8%, #ff33ff 25%, #800080 62.5%, #b300b3 100%)
  }
  50% {
    background: radial-gradient(ellipse farthest-corner at top, #FFFFFF 0%, #ffb3ff 8%, #ff33ff 25%, #800080 62.5%, #b300b3 100%)
  }
  100% {
    background: radial-gradient(ellipse farthest-corner at right top, #FFFFFF 0%, #ffb3ff 8%, #ff33ff 25%, #800080 62.5%, #b300b3 100%)
  }
}

<div id="shine-div">
  Shine
</div>

Answer 1

You can do the gradient differently and animate the position. The trick is to double the size of the gradient and make the value of color stop half of their actual values so you keep the same visual gradient then you can animate it from left to right.

It won't look exactly the same as the gradient you defined in the animation due to the calculation of farthest-corner.

#shine-div {
  height: 30vh;
  width: 60vw;
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-left: auto;
  border-radius: 10px;
  background: radial-gradient(farthest-corner at top, #FFFFFF 0%, #ffb3ff 4%, #ff33ff 12.25%, #800080 31.25%, #b300b3 50%) top right/200% 200%;
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
  color: white;
  font-weight: bold;
  animation: colorChange 5s infinite alternate;
}

@keyframes colorChange {
  to {
    background-position:top left;
  }
 }

<div id="shine-div">
  Shine
</div>