Paper Boat Pond
A shallow garden pond, reeds on one side, a flat stone on the other, and three paper boats. Touch the water and watch it move.
Gentle water
Rings spread across the pond and the boats rock a little. Nothing flashes. Sound plays only if you start with it.
What you can do here
- Touch the water
- Tap anywhere on the pond and a ring spreads out, bends your view of the stones underneath, and catches the light from the sky. Rings bounce off the bank and the big stone the way real ones do.
- Leave a wake
- Drag through the water and a trail of small rings follows your finger.
- Rock the boats
- Each boat rides the water under it, so a ring passing beneath lifts it and lets it down.
- Stir it up
- Ripples sets how often something touches the pond on its own, and how much the boats sway in between.
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/paper-boat-pond/#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.
How the water works
The surface is a small simulation: a grid of tens of thousands of points, each pulled toward its neighbors, which is enough for rings to spread, cross and fade the way water does. The grid is squashed from top to bottom because you see the pond from a low angle, so the rings come out as ellipses rather than circles, wider up close and flatter far away.
About the sounds
Two recordings and one quiet layer: small ripples against the bank, a single ripple when you touch the water, and the open air of a garden by water. Touch as often as you like; the ripple sound waits three seconds between plays so it never piles up.
If you’d rather just watch
Picture and sounds generated from our prompts. Motion, controls and mix by WhiteScreen.tv.
