Ambient Canvas is a living macOS screensaver and desktop companion that captures your local solar angles and atmospheric pressure, morphing them into beautiful, architectural data art on your screen.
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Ambient Canvas translates the day into three biological eras rather than mechanical clock time, at the intersection of chronobiology and solar ephemeris. A real-time engine reads your location, computes the 24-hour solar arc, and overlays live hourly weather to render the canvas.
Activation and transition as the sun crosses the horizon, expansion, soft clay and grey tones.
Peak focus and alignment at the sun's zenith: precision, stark brutalist black-and-ivory geometry.
The zero state at solar midnight: vastness, dark slate and obsidian negative space.
A live solar clock widget tracing today's sun arc for your exact coordinates, tinted by real-time cloud cover and light.
Five live weather variables drawn as generative contour art: atmospheric pressure, temperature, wind speed, wind direction and cloud cover.
Learn about membership →Ambient Canvas ships as a free screensaver for macOS 13 Ventura or later. Install it once and your Mac's idle screen becomes a quiet, ever-changing portrait of the sky outside. The Circadian Sun view is free forever; the Topography view is available with a monthly membership.
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