Live Wire etches a circuit board that never finishes drawing itself. Traces route, branch, and fuse across three depths of parallax while light pulses race the wires and power surges ripple through the whole net. Click to fire a surge, hold to charge a network-wide cascade, hover to light up a connected net, or just let it run as an ambient screensaver and live wallpaper.
Live Wire is a free, browser-based generative art tool that draws a circuit board which never stops routing itself. Traces branch and fuse across three parallax depth layers while light pulses race the wires and power surges ripple through the whole network. It runs as an ambient screensaver, a live wallpaper, or an interactive toy.
Open Live Wire full screen and let it run. It keeps generating new circuitry on its own, so it works as an always-on screensaver in a spare tab or on a second monitor. To use it as a static wallpaper, hit Save frame (or press S) to download the current composition as a PNG, then set that image as your desktop or phone background.
Yes. The Save frame button in the settings panel, or the S key, downloads the current frame as a high-resolution PNG (up to 4K) sized for wallpaper use. Randomize or rebuild the board first if you want a fresh layout, then save the one you like.
Yes. Open the Export section and choose Record clip. You can capture an MP4 video (WebM in Firefox) or an animated GIF, in landscape, portrait, square, or your current screen aspect, at your chosen resolution, frame rate, and length. GIF is a 256-color format best for short clips, so gradients band and files get large; use MP4 for the highest quality, pick the Best GIF option for cleaner glow, and turn on Finalize for upload if you need an MP4 that plays in full on Google Photos. Keep the tab in front while it records.
Click to fire a power surge from the nearest node, sending pulses cascading through the connected wires. Hold to charge a bigger network-wide surge, then release. Hover over a trace to light up the whole connected net beneath your pointer, the way an EDA tool highlights a circuit.
Yes. It is responsive and touch-aware, so tapping fires surges and holding charges them the same way clicking does on desktop. On slower devices it automatically scales back detail to keep the animation smooth.
Yes. Live Wire ships with five palettes (Tokyo, Vapor, Reactor, Ember, Glacier) plus a custom palette where you pick your own background, trace, pulse, and flare colors. Your custom colors are saved in your browser for next time.
Live Wire is completely free with no account and no install. Everything runs in your browser and nothing you make is uploaded anywhere. Unlike native live-wallpaper apps that need Wallpaper Engine or Lively installed, Live Wire is a single web page that just runs. For a still, high-detail circuit-board image instead, try Circuit Breaker.
Capture the live board as a video or animated GIF.
GIF is 256-color, so gradients band. Best builds an optimal palette for cleaner glow (loads a ~30 MB encoder the first time); Fast is instant.
Landscape 1080p at 30 fps.
Keep this tab in front until it finishes. Switching tabs or minimizing will make the capture stutter.