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Outbound: a painted world, flying by behind your desktop

A live wallpaper for Mac. A painted world drifts by behind your desktop, and a little bird follows your cursor.

Buy for $4.99 · Download · Website

The bird following the cursor A village at night A train crossing the paddies Geese over the tulip fields

Eight real places

Niigata, Japan Punjab, India Lisse, Netherlands Serengeti, Tanzania Normandy, France Kansas, United States Lapland, Finland La Pampa, Argentina

The light follows your clock

Morning Noon Evening Night

Needs a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 13 Ventura or newer. $4.99 + tax, once, for up to 3 Macs.

Build

scripts/build-app.sh debug
open build/Outbound.app

Ship an update to everyone: scripts/release.sh 1.1 "What's new."

Before changing the shaders or the renderer, run scripts/perf.sh keep, and afterwards scripts/perf.sh check: it compares GPU time a frame, memory, shader compile time and the pictures themselves with the build that was kept. After any change to the shaders also run scripts/perf.sh steady, which paints one frame 1,200 times and fails unless every painting is the same.

The website is in Website/, built with Astro to plain HTML. npm install once, then npm run dev to work on the pages, or npm run preview to build them and run the Worker too. English words are in Website/src/i18n/en.json, and the build stops until every other language has the same keys.

License

The code is open to read and improve. Using the app needs a license. See LICENSE.

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