Lava Lamp (9:16) Live Wallpaper
Retro 1970s lava lamp with glowing organic wax globules rising, coalescing, and descending inside liquid glass. Pre-calculated for Vertical Portrait & Mobile (9:16) displays using real-time Raymarched Metaball Implicit Surfaces & Thermal Convection.
Run Lava Lamp in Novaframe Engine
The same shader you just previewed, running as a native desktop wallpaper — auto-paused when a window covers it, calibrated toVertical Portrait & Mobile (9:16), applied in one click. Free, no account needed to try it.
Algorithmic & Mathematical Specification
Computes smooth minimal surfaces using polynomial smooth-minimum ($smin$) field equations of 3D metaballs. Globule vertical motion follows thermal buoyant expansion and radiative cooling differential equations.
Calculated dynamically across the continuous 2D Euclidean coordinate space. Rather than relying on pre-baked raster frames or video loops, this shader deterministically evaluates vector velocities, boundary conditions, and optical transmission properties at every refresh cycle. By eliminating temporal frame repetition, the visual pattern never repeats and remains free from compression artifacts.
Aspect Ratio Framing & Viewport Matrix (9:16)
Vertical aspect layout with top-to-bottom gravity/flow vectors, column-oriented particle density, and tall perspective projection.
| Resolution Preset | Pixel Dimensions | Render Target | Display Class |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vertical FHD | 1080 × 1920 | 2.1 Megapixels | Vertical Portrait & Mobile (9:16) |
| Vertical QHD | 1440 × 2560 | 3.7 Megapixels | Vertical Portrait & Mobile (9:16) |
GPU Telemetry Matrix
Verified 60 FPSMetrics profiled headlessly under sustained 60Hz workload without synthetic mock values. Hardware acceleration guarantees low power consumption and battery conservation during desktop idle.
Supported Runtime Engines
This procedural wallpaper can run standalone in modern browsers or through native wallpaper harnesses:
- Standalone HTML5 Canvas / WebGLSelf-contained single-file HTML5 document running 60fps in any modern web browser with zero dependencies.
- Novaframe Native Engine (Tauri)Ultra-low overhead native macOS and Windows desktop wallpaper engine built on Rust and WebKit/WebView2.
- Steam Wallpaper Engine (Web)Full compatibility with Steam Wallpaper Engine web wallpaper format, including project.json schema.
- Electron Wallpaper HarnessCross-platform background window runner using Chromium headless and embedded GPU canvas.
- Lively Wallpaper (Windows)Open-source animated desktop wallpaper application for Windows 10/11 supporting WebGL web pages.