Visual
Dither Dunes
A slowly moving dithered desert, full screen.
Download for Mac (.zip)Free · macOS 13 or later
Dither Dunes is a small piece of ambient art: an animated black-and-white landscape of rolling dunes under a sun, drawn with chunky ordered dithering.
What it does
- Animated landscape rendered at about 30 frames per second.
- Three palettes: mono, amber and green.
- Pause and play, and a full screen button.
Leave it open on a second display, or full screen it for a calm background.
Notes
It is a normal window, not a live desktop wallpaper.
The prompt behind it
This app was generated from the prompt below. Paste it into silicondevkit.com to build your own version, then change it however you like.
Build an app called Dither Dunes: a window that renders a slowly animating black-and-white dithered landscape of rolling dunes with a sun, using SwiftUI Canvas and ordered Bayer dithering at a chunky pixel scale, at 30 fps. Add toolbar buttons for pause and full screen, and a palette picker with mono, amber and green.
Opening it for the first time
This app is signed ad hoc and is not notarized, so macOS may block the first launch. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. See Signing and first launch.