Cedar Creek
A clear, shallow creek winds over pebbles through a forest of old cedars. The water runs, the ferns stir, and a smooth stone waits at the edge.
Running water
The creek flows steadily toward you and the ferns stir a little. Nothing flashes. Sound plays only if you start with it.
What you can do here
- Set the flow
- Flow runs from a slow trickle to a lively spring creek. The little waves on the surface travel faster, the pebbles underneath wobble more, and the water gets louder.
- Send a ring downstream
- Tap the water and a ring spreads from your finger, but it doesn’t stay put: the current carries it off toward you as it widens and fades, the way a ring does on moving water.
- Splash by the stone
- Tap the big smooth stone and the water at its edge splashes, with a small plip.
- Listen into the trees
- Air raises the forest air and lets the ferns stir a little more; turn it down and they go still while the creek keeps running.
Use it as your wallpaper
Press F for fullscreen and M to turn the sound off and on; the volume and your sound choice carry over to every wallpaper. The sound keeps playing if you switch to another tab.
Live link
https://whitescreen.tv/interactive-wallpapers/cedar-creek/#wallpaper- On a computer desktop
- Some wallpaper apps can show a web page behind your desktop icons. Give one the live link above and the scene runs there on its own: no page around it, no ads and no sound.
- On a TV or a spare screen
- Open this page and press F, or use Fullscreen. While it’s in fullscreen we ask the browser to keep the screen from going to sleep.
- On a phone or tablet
- Save image downloads exactly what’s on the screen as a picture. Set it as your wallpaper from your photos; the phone will crop the sides.
A live wallpaper keeps a page running all day. Through the live link the scene draws at most 30 frames a second and stops while the screen is covered, but on a laptop it still costs some battery.
Why the shine stays put
The bright band down the middle of the creek is the sky, reflected. It stays where it is because it depends on where you stand, not on the water. What moves is the surface: each little wave that passes tilts toward the sky or away from it, so the band breaks up and mends again as the current carries the waves through it. The pebbles below seem to wobble for the same reason, as the moving surface bends your view of them.
About the sounds
Two recordings and one quiet layer: the shallow creek itself, a small splash at the stone’s edge, and the open air of the forest. The splash waits four seconds between plays.
If you’d rather just watch
Picture and sounds generated from our prompts. Motion, controls and mix by WhiteScreen.tv.
