Lantern Library
An old reading room at night: shelves of books, a brass lamp, an open book on the table, and rain on the garden windows. Turn a page whenever you like.
Rain and lamplight
Rain falls beyond the windows and a few drops run down the glass. A page turns only when you ask. Nothing flashes. Sound plays only if you start with it.
What you can do here
- Turn the page
- Touch the open book, press Turn the page, or press P. The page lifts from its outer corner, crosses the spine and settles on the left, the way a heavy old page does. One page every four seconds at most.
- Dim the lamp
- Lamp turns the desk lamp down. Only its light goes: the desk and the book fall into shadow and the light that's left turns warmer, while the windows keep the cool glow of the garden.
- Change the weather
- Rain goes from a few drops to a steady rain. Watch a drop let go now and then and run down a pane until a lead bar stops it, which is where water collects on a real window.
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/lantern-library/#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 drops stop at the bars
A drop runs down glass only while it's heavy enough to beat the grip of the surface. When it reaches the strip of lead between two panes, the edge holds it, so drops gather along the bars and the glass just below stays clearer. On these windows every pane has its own few drops, and none of them crosses a bar.
About the sounds
Two recordings and one shared layer: paper settling in a quiet room, a single page being turned, and rain heard through glass. The page sound and the page you see are timed together: the sheet starts to lift as the paper starts to move, and it lands as the page settles.
If you’d rather just watch
Picture and sounds generated from our prompts. Motion, controls and mix by WhiteScreen.tv.
