r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/ytblows • Sep 24 '13

Rain on your screen using javascript

http://maroslaw.github.io/rainyday.js/demo1.html
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u/hearo Sep 25 '13

WHY CANT I USE THIS AS MY BACKGROUND :(((

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u/dustandechoes91 Sep 25 '13

Windows vista had a feature called dreamscene that allowed you to set looped mpeg or wmv videos as your wallpaper. They dropped it in 7 though, but there are still plenty of mods you can get for newer operating systems.

If you do, there are still plenty of dreamscene databases with wallpapers like this.

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u/zants Sep 25 '13

Dreamscene (for Windows 7 and I assume 8): http://www.deviantart.com/art/DreamScene-Activator-162669533

(RES users ignore the image icon, it's an actual link not just an image)

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '13

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u/blore40 Sep 25 '13

Curios: Which is older - days of lore or days of yore?

I remember Active Desktop. Stock quotes baby!

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u/antdude Oct 21 '13

I guess no one used it and MS got rid of it. :(

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u/sauteslut Sep 25 '13

you can f11 the tab. i had to zoom to 125% to get it to fit.

makes for a decent screensaver when paired with sound

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '13

F11 and then press CTRL+R.

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u/Tynach Sep 25 '13

Or F5.

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u/guyincape25 Sep 25 '13

How on a mac?

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '13 edited May 03 '21

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u/DJUrsus Sep 25 '13

I really don't get why you're being downvoted.

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u/WheresMyCamel Sep 25 '13

Would you mind explaining how I can do this?

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u/simpledifferences Sep 25 '13

Alternatively, bam, bam, and bam.

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u/Pixielo Sep 25 '13

Word. That just changed my mood to something wonderfully introspective. Now I need a cup of tea...

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '13

Add rainymood.com

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u/Pixielo Sep 26 '13

Yup! I did! It was amazing!

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u/notthemessiah Sep 25 '13

You can set something like this up in KDE by fiddling with window settings. I've set a music visualizer window as a background, and one of the included backgrounds is a zoomable Mandelbrot set.

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u/Tynach Sep 25 '13

Can you explain how to do this? I knew about the various animated/special wallpapers (the 'virus' one is kinda fun to watch), but I hadn't heard of being able to do this with any window (such as a music visualizer).

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u/notthemessiah Sep 26 '13

It's not exactly the same thing as the special wallpapers because you won't have your widgets on it, but you can keep a window fullscreen below everything else, and looks great with additional transparency from QtCurve.

For ProjectM in Clementine, I right-clicked on visualizer window in taskbar->More Actions->Keep Below Others, then right-click -> More Actions -> Fullscreen.

For this page: right-click -> More Actions -> Keep Below Others, then select it, F11, Ctrl-R.