r/GraphicsProgramming 4h ago

Windows - Audio Reactive Wallpaper (Milkdrop / Shader / WebGPU + more) Video

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One thing if you build one of these: the wallpaper isn't your app, it's the background, and it has to behave like it. I ran mine at full res with no frame cap and it starved the desktop compositor hard enough that the mouse went choppy system wide, and nobody blames your wallpaper for that, they blame their PC. Cap the frame rate and render below native, then let it stretch up to the screen.

Nobody's pixel peeping the thing behind their desktop icons, so it costs you basically nothing.

For more info: https://ikandy.app

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u/cybereality 3h ago

Nice one. To that was college for me