Floating Islands
A tree on an island in the sky, a brass wind charm on its branch, and more islands floating out over a sea of clouds. Steer the breeze and ring the charm.
Slow drift
The clouds drift slowly below, the islands float a little, and the grass and leaves move in the breeze. Nothing flashes. Sound plays only if you start with it.
What you can do here
- Ring the wind charm
- Tap the brass charm on the branch. It swings, rings once and comes back to rest. It waits seven seconds before it will ring again, so it never clatters.
- Steer the breeze
- Drag sideways across the scene and the grass and leaves lean the way you drag, then ease back as the gust passes.
- Nudge an island
- Tap the island with the waterfall, or one of the misty ones far out, and it dips a little and settles, the way a boat rides out a small swell.
- Raise the wind
- Breeze moves the clouds along faster, rolls bigger gusts through the grass, and turns up the wind in the leaves. The islands keep their calm at any setting.
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/floating-islands/#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 near clouds move faster
The cloud right under the islands and the cloud out by the horizon drift at the same speed, but the near cloud is much closer to you, so it crosses more of your view in the same time. It is the same reason fence posts race past a train window while the hills behind them creep. That difference in speed is most of what makes a flat picture feel deep.
About the sounds
Two recordings and one quiet layer: wind moving through the leaves of an island tree, a single brass wind charm, and the open air high above the clouds. The Breeze slider makes the wind louder; the charm sounds only when you touch it.
If you’d rather just watch
Picture and sounds generated from our prompts. Motion, controls and mix by WhiteScreen.tv.
