Magnetic Balls

So this new Magnetic Balls Live Wallpaper is a bit different from most of my previous wallpapers. It's not about nature, skies, clouds, stars, birds or even flowers. It's just lots and lots of balls. They follow your touch and are sucked towards your finger. And after a while they drop and fall right back where they started. There are a bunch of settings in the full version:

- Object shape (they don't have to be balls)
- Grid distance
- Distance between balls
- Lift speed (how fast do they "jump")
- Gravity (how fast do they fall)
- Float time (increase to make them stay in the air in the highest position before dropping)
- Ball size
- Lift neighbors (how many neighbor balls are affected when a ball starts to fly)
- Color of balls
- Random color changes when touched (on/off)

Playing around with these controls can make them change behaviour quite dramatically. From a slow jello to popping popcorns.

If color changes are enabled each swipe will generate a new random color and the balls you touch shift color. After that they "bleed" this color to their neigbors and after a while all colors start blending together to a nice smooth gradient. Your wallpaper never will look the same from one minute to another.

And please comments, bug reports, improvements, suggestions - just write them here in this blog.

Enjoy!

Birch Wood

I have wanted to do something like this for a while. I visualized the birch forest with just white birch trunks. However after deploying the first version I couldn't make it look as I wanted, the trunks where just too tall (attached image) when in portrait mode (which must be the most common mode by far). So I started looking for a nice clean birch crown to add to the top of the trunks. After hours of searching both on Flickr creative commons and stock photo sites I couldn't find anything that looked nice. I added some green leaves but am not quite happy with the result. Better than the first release but I have to keep looking. Or bring my camera for a birch-hunt.

Summer Trees

In the beginning there was Twin Trees. Then came Winter Trees. After that Spring Trees. And now the time has come for.... *drumroll* ...SUMMER TREES. Big surprise, right?

Spring trees is still my best seller live wallpaper. I wonder if this one will be popular as well?

For starters there are choices between maple tree and oak tree. Daisies and red clovers for the foreground selection, and two different backgrounds (or none at all). Instead of petals or leaves flying in the air, this one has spinning green seeds falling from the sky.

And of course all the usual settings for time, clouds, moon, sun, stars, birds etc.

Enjoy.