Neon Rain Alley
An empty back alley at night: a cyan sign, a pink neon tube over a door, wet paving and a slow wall fan. Watch the rain, or touch the puddles.
Rain and neon
Thin rain falls and rings spread across the puddles. The neon stays steady; nothing flashes. Sound plays only if you start with it.
What you can do here
- Touch the puddles
- Tap a puddle and a ring spreads across it, bending the cyan and pink reflections. Drag through one and a trail of small rings follows.
- Change the rain
- Rain goes from a drizzle to a downpour. The puddles ring more often as it rises, and the streaks show only where there is light behind them, as rain does at night.
- Tap the gutter
- Tap the end of the drainpipe and a drop falls into the wet patch below it. In steady rain it drips on its own every so often.
- Turn the fan
- Fan sets how fast the extractor fan on the right-hand wall turns, and how loud the ventilation is.
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/neon-rain-alley/#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 rain shows only in the light
At night you see rain only where something lit stands behind it: a sign, a lamp, a bright window. Against a dark wall the same drops are invisible. Each streak here takes its brightness from the light behind it, which is why the rain is thickest in front of the cyan sign and the pink tube and almost gone in the shadows.
About the sounds
Two recordings and one shared layer: the alley’s ventilation and drips, a single drop from the gutter, and rain heard from under cover. The rain gets louder with the Rain slider, the ventilation with the Fan.
If you’d rather just watch
Picture and sounds generated from our prompts. Motion, controls and mix by WhiteScreen.tv.
