Desert Campfire
A ring of stones, a few logs burning low, dark dunes and more stars than you usually get to see. Poke the coals, build the fire up, and listen to the night.
Firelight
Small flames move above the logs, sparks rise now and then and the stars shimmer faintly. The light on the sand changes only a little, and slowly. Nothing flashes. Sound plays only if you start with it.
What you can do here
- Poke the coals
- Tap the fire, or press Poke the coals. A dry twig cracks and a handful of sparks climbs into the dark, then the fire needs a few seconds before it answers again.
- Build it up or let it burn down
- Fire runs from a bed of glowing coals to a lively fire. The flames grow, more sparks lift off, and the sand around the ring warms a little.
- Let the night air in
- Night air brings the wind up. It comes in gusts: the loose canvas bellies out and settles, the flames lean downwind, and the sparks drift sideways as they climb.
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/desert-campfire/#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 there are so many stars
Deserts are dark and dry. Far from towns there is little light in the sky to drown out the faint stars, and dry, clear air lets more of their light through, so a desert night can show a few thousand stars to the naked eye. They still twinkle a little, because their light bends as it crosses the moving air near the ground.
About the sounds
Two recordings and one quiet layer: a small fire of dry wood, a single twig cracking when you poke it, and a little night wind that rises with the Night air slider. The crack waits five seconds between plays.
If you’d rather just watch
Picture and sounds generated from our prompts. Motion, controls and mix by WhiteScreen.tv.
