Floating Market
A covered walkway beside a canal market after closing: two wooden boats tied up, baskets of fruit on the stalls, and lanterns reflected in the dark water.
A quiet canal
The water drifts and ripples, the tied boats rise and fall a pixel or two, the leaves sway and a few moths circle a lantern. The lanterns stay steady and nothing flashes. Sound plays only if you start with it.
What you can do here
- Set the current
- Current sets how fast the canal drifts toward you. It never gets strong enough to pull the boats off their ropes; it just carries the ripples along, so the lanterns’ reflections stretch and slide.
- Let in a breeze
- Breeze ruffles the water, breaking each lantern’s reflection into more glints, and sets the banana leaves swaying from where they hang, more at their tips than at their stems.
- Touch the rope
- Tap the rope or the mooring post. The near boat takes up the slack, nudges toward the post and settles back.
- Stir the water
- Move over the canal and the ripples near you grow a little, so the reflections there break up.
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-market/#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.
About floating markets
Floating markets grew up where canals were the roads. In central Thailand and in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, vendors still sell fruit, vegetables and cooked food straight from their boats. They’re busiest at first light; by evening, as here, the boats are tied up and the stalls are quiet.
About the sounds
Two recordings and one quiet layer: water moving between wooden hulls, a moored boat settling when you tap the rope, and the evening air of a garden. The boat waits six seconds between plays.
If you’d rather just watch
Picture and sounds generated from our prompts. Motion, controls and mix by WhiteScreen.tv.
