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Re: Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

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troybetz wrote: post #43
fphilipe wrote: post #38

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It features the current date and time with seconds, so it must be rendered on the fly.

The assets and some? of the scripting for it are in a bundle at: /System/Library/ExtensionKit/Extensions/WallpaperMacintoshExtension.appex Can see the time and date being added here I think: System6ControlPanel.program // // System 6 Control Panel // Macintosh 40th Anniversary // // Copyright © 2024 Apple. All rights reserved. // //---------------------------------------------- start simultaneous scale out let image…

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Re: Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

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Post by philsnow »

buildbot wrote: post #10

As much (fairly well deserved) hate as Tahoe gets, the video wallpapers and transparency are such a fun Windows Vista vibe I get nostalgia. Time to set this up with the Vista waterfall wallpaper and reallllyyy feel like it’s 2007!

I'm feeling nostalgic for ~1998 when I ran xscreensaver hacks in the background on the root X window (so the "desktop" I guess)

Re: Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

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Post by kageroumado »

tharropoulos wrote: post #76

Really nice work. We went down a similar rabbit hole recently and reverse engineered the Aerials catalogue to figure out how Apple wires this stuff up, so seeing another open source project doing this is great. The detail I love most and one I can't replicate on our own tool is how the animation persists between the login window and the live desktop. We built phonto as a cross platform take on the same idea, https://…

Thank you! The way it works is that the video playback is shared between the lock screen and the desktop, and Apple’s framework transparently switches the surface it’s displayed to.

Re: Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

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Post by kageroumado »

blazarquasar wrote: post #64
ggrelet wrote: post #53

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How did you bring up the page so quick? And what helped you design it?

It’s entirely designed by claude. Looks like every claude website out there.

Yes, I told Claude to design it to their taste, I just provided the screenshots and the video.

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charcircuit wrote: post #97
dspillett wrote: post #71

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> Encouraging such behavior will waste people's time having to deal with people on this site who can't do simple arithmetic. We shouldn't encourage people who can't properly read and understand a comment before replying either, but here we are talking to you who jumped on correcting the “2 or 3 years” to “19 years” without noticing that “2007” was in the post so the poster was obviously well aware of that. > being un…

>“2007” was in the post so the poster was obviously well aware of that. Which is why I first included the possibility the commenter didn't know the current year. >humans experience the passage of time at massively different rates The commenter did not say anything related to this. The relative speed of time was not referenced. >that is acceptable in a given environment Humor is not very acceptable on this website com…

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Re: Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

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Post by kageroumado »

crimsontech wrote: post #75
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #7

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Good on ya. I won't use it, myself, because I can't deal with wallpaper moving behind my work (I also can't listen to music, while I work. Maybe it's a "generational" thing). Also, I use a 49-inch ultrawide, so it might be vomit-inducing. I remember some other utility that played wallpaper videos, but it wasn't anywhere near as nicely done.

It doesn't move while you work, its just the lock screen and when you log in.

It’s actually configurable. You can make it keep playing if you want to.
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