Hi Product Hunt, I'm Jordan and I made Glyphscape. I wanted my desktop to feel a little more alive without turning into a screensaver. Glyphscape draws animated scenes out of glyphs, natively in Metal, right behind your windows. There are 40 of them across four families, Flow, Spectral, Cities and Figures, from a snowy mountain village to pop-art portraits that glitch. You can also bring your own photo. Glyphscape renders it as ASCII, dots, pixels or dither and adds drift, zoom, orbit, ripple or wave motion. Your images stay on your Mac. Some details: - A different look on every display, or one setup across all of them - Save colors, glyphs and motion as profiles - 12, 24 or 30 FPS, capped at 12 on battery - No subscription and no account Five scenes are free forever. Full is $5 once for all 40 scenes and your own images on up to 3 Macs. Apple Silicon, macOS 13 or later. You can try every scene in the browser first. Its Save Clip button records about 8 seconds of any scene, or your own photo as ASCII, and downloads it without uploading anything: https://glyphscape.ink/playground I'd love to hear which scene you'd keep on your desktop.

Glyphscape

Animated ASCII wallpapers for your Mac, and your photos

Animated ASCII wallpapers for your Mac, and your photos