The site the app was born from

The website came first. A wallpaper generator that runs inside the browser: pick a shape, a palette and a mood, and the image is born right there, at the size of the screen looking at it. No file to download from an archive, no account, no visitor counter.

The idea

Good wallpapers are everywhere, but they are files: they weigh something, they repeat, and the person at the next desk has them too. A generated wallpaper is unique by construction, and it can be remade identical whenever needed, because it is described by a short code instead of a file.

How it is built

• Static site, no framework, no external library.
• Palettes are not lists of colours: they are ramps sampled continuously, so two wallpapers from the same palette never share the exact same colours.
• Every composition has a wallpaper code describing it completely: shape, palette, mode, grain, intensity and seed, in a few letters.
• It is hosted on a machine at home, behind a tunnel.

Then the app was born

The next step was taking the same engine to the iPhone, where a wallpaper is actually looked at. The wallpaper code is the same: made on the site it works in the app and the other way round. It is the piece that holds the two together, and it is also why the site did not become useless the day the app shipped.