Tried this on desktop and mobile, totally different experiences. I love the residue effect on the screen after I tilt the sand around on mobile. Next step: hourglass or maybe a snow globe?

Does it make Patterns if you put a sine wave on your phone's speaker? What are they called? Moirée patterns?

Found source repo here https://github.com/av/safe-sand

This brings me a lot of joy. I love little toys that exist for no other reason than "I really want this to be a thing"

On a mobile phone it makes a lot more sense. Try shaking it!

It was a lot of fun. I wrote I love you phrase to my gf and she liked it.

I just spent 15 mins playing with this on my phone, it was a lot of fun!

oh wow, the stones even have some water around them. This looks and feels real.

And if you manage to collect a lot in one place, the sand from the pile does fall like real sand. This is amazing.

The sound is not good though.

It didn’t look realistic to me until I added `?sand=beach` to the URL. Maybe I only associate sand from the beach as sand. Others I call silt perhaps incorrectly.

this is super fun! well done

This is really cool and give a realistic sense

Wow man, very cool.

I am feeling the sand physically at watching at this, good job!

You can play a nice little round of Bocce with the stones

This one does much better at retaining volume than the smudge demo last week :)

Seeing all the Macbook Pro PROLED XDR Touch Screen geeks finding a use for their new device :D

Cue the whines about not using WebGPU.

I think it's lacking momentum, the sand stops way too abruptly, and the audio also has too harsh cutoff. It also falls too fast.

Otherwise really amazing!

i feel like i'm watching a stop-motion movie as it moves. very nice

This is very fun to play with.

This is annoying to clean up exactly like real sand.

I wouldn’t call it realistic, sand gets stuck in the air, stones don’t rotate, and there’s quite an uncanny valley effect based on angles. Still a cool demo of what is possible, even though I get 10fps or something on a iPhone 15 Pro

Zooming on the desktop makes it more dense looking, which is probably not intended but can look very cool IMO.

Reminds me of this demo game https://store.steampowered.com/app/3216520/Sandcastle/

Runs like crap on iPhone 14. I know it’s not the current generation of phone but is there really that meaningful of a difference between that and a current one?

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