Idea: Dynamic Desktop Wallpaper?

LoBlo · 05-13-07, 07:59 PM

You know what just occurred to me? Why hasn't anyone at microsoft or apple invented "dynamic desktop wallpaper" yet? Like sorta a "living desktop background" which moved and seems alive... I can think of some cool desktops right now.

- a space view of the earth where the earth actually rotates real-time
- dynamic clouds that moved and swirled just like RL, and even changed whether and stormed! Lightening optional
- a ocean view with moving waves and swells.
- grassly pasture where the sun slowly moved across the sky (dawn in RL = dawn on wallpaper, night in RL = night in wallpaper... etc.)
- starry sky which occasion comets/meteors and moving constellations.

All uber cool

Anyone know if anything like this is already available?

fatty · 05-13-07, 08:04 PM

Microsoft's Active Desktop technology does what I think you are asking, by allowing you to put HTML on your desktop in place of an image. I think it used a lot of resources and I never found anything interesting to use it for so I never bothered with it.

Dowly · 05-14-07, 01:27 AM

Actually, there is atleast one kinda dynamic wallpaper that I know of. It is a picture of a flattened world map where the night & day change in RL. Cant remember where I got it from, but it was quite neat.

The Avon Lady · 05-14-07, 01:40 AM

An article on the subject.

Jimbuna · 05-14-07, 03:36 AM

There not that popular because of the drain on resources they have

Psycluded · 05-14-07, 04:11 AM

Did you like The Matrix?

http://zmatrix.sourceforge.net/index.html

Try it, love it.

Best desktop/screenie of this type I've seen yet, and I use it with a blank black background even today.

05-13-07, 07:59 PM	#1
LoBlo Subsim Diehard Join Date: May 2006 Location: Texas! Posts: 971 Downloads: 78 Uploads: 3	Idea: Dynamic Desktop Wallpaper? You know what just occurred to me? Why hasn't anyone at microsoft or apple invented "dynamic desktop wallpaper" yet? Like sorta a "living desktop background" which moved and seems alive... I can think of some cool desktops right now. - a space view of the earth where the earth actually rotates real-time - dynamic clouds that moved and swirled just like RL, and even changed whether and stormed! Lightening optional - a ocean view with moving waves and swells. - grassly pasture where the sun slowly moved across the sky (dawn in RL = dawn on wallpaper, night in RL = night in wallpaper... etc.) - starry sky which occasion comets/meteors and moving constellations. All uber cool Anyone know if anything like this is already available? __________________ "Seek not to offend or annoy... only to speak the truth"-a wise man

05-14-07, 01:40 AM	#4
The Avon Lady Über Mom Join Date: May 2005 Location: Jerusalem, Israel Posts: 6,147 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	An article on the subject. __________________ "Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women." - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria, Speech before the UN, 1974

05-14-07, 03:36 AM	#5
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,525 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	There not that popular because of the drain on resources they have __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

05-14-07, 04:11 AM	#6
Psycluded A-ganger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Pacific Theater Posts: 71 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Did you like The Matrix? http://zmatrix.sourceforge.net/index.html Try it, love it. Best desktop/screenie of this type I've seen yet, and I use it with a blank black background even today. __________________ Psycluded - Dad. Gamer. Programmer Captain, USS Drum (SS-228), Gato class US Submarine

05-13-07, 08:04 PM	#2
fatty The Old Man Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 1,448 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Microsoft's Active Desktop technology does what I think you are asking, by allowing you to put HTML on your desktop in place of an image. I think it used a lot of resources and I never found anything interesting to use it for so I never bothered with it.

05-14-07, 01:27 AM	#3
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,052 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Actually, there is atleast one kinda dynamic wallpaper that I know of. It is a picture of a flattened world map where the night & day change in RL. Cant remember where I got it from, but it was quite neat.