Sleeping Fox in Snow
A red fox asleep at the edge of the woods, curled nose to tail on the snow. The snow keeps falling and the fox keeps sleeping.
Slow breathing
The fox breathes about sixteen times a minute, snow falls around it and mist drifts in the trees. Nothing flashes. Sound plays only if you start with it.
What you can do here
- Watch it breathe
- The fox breathes about 16 times a minute. Its back and side lift and settle, while its head and the tail wrapped around its nose stay still. Once in a long while the ear against the snow flicks.
- Touch the snow
- Tap the snow anywhere and a little loose snow jumps up and falls back. Do it close to the fox and it shifts in its sleep: one deeper breath, and the soft sound of its fur settling. That waits ten seconds before it happens again.
- Snow and wind
- Snow goes from a few flakes to a heavy fall. Wind pushes the snow sideways, moves the mist in the trees along faster and brings up the sound of the wind.
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/sleeping-fox-in-snow/#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 flakes look the way they do
The snow falls through a camera fitted to the photograph: the lens about a foot off the snow, the fox a little under two meters away. Flakes farther off than the fox pass behind it, and the farther they are, the smaller and slower they look. The few that fall right in front of the lens are big and out of focus, the way they come out in a real photograph. Far flakes land at the far edge of the clearing, not at the bottom of the picture.
How the fox breathes
This picture came with the clearing on its own and the fox on its own, so the fox can be redrawn on every frame without smearing the snow under it. Each breath lifts its back a few pixels from where it lies. A resting fox breathes somewhere around 15 to 25 times a minute; this one sits at the slow end, as you’d expect in a deep sleep.
About the sounds
Two recordings and one quiet layer: a snowy clearing with almost nothing happening in it, the soft rustle of fur settling, and a light wind. No music.
If you’d rather just watch
Picture and sounds generated from our prompts. Motion, controls and mix by WhiteScreen.tv.
