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Nebula Drift

Violet and indigo gas clouds scattered with stars, on near-black.

About this pair

Nebula Drift is a field of violet and indigo cloud drawn with fractal noise, lit from inside and dusted with about a thousand stars. The clouds thin out toward the top of the frame, which is deliberate: that is where the clock and status icons sit, and a bright cloud behind white text is a wallpaper you stop using after two days.

The star field is the part that had to be drawn twice rather than scaled. Stars are a fixed size in pixels, so an image scaled up from the cover file to the inner screen would show noticeably fatter, softer stars on the bigger panel. Here each file gets its own stars at its own size, and the two screens keep the same sense of depth.

A note on the colour: the cloud is built from three mixed layers rather than one, so the violet never flattens into a single tone. If you want a widget that belongs on it, pull a colour from the brighter edge of a cloud rather than the core — around #5B3C9B — and use near-white text on it.

Works well with

• Dark Mode
• Light widget text
• Lock Screen as well as Home Screen

Setting it up

1. Download both files above.
2. Fold the phone closed, then Settings → Wallpaper → Add New Wallpaper → Photos and choose the cover file.
3. Unfold and repeat with the inner file.

If it ends up cropped or zoomed, this is usually why.

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