Oilwheel: Liquid Light Show & Psychedelic Oil Projection

Drag anywhere on the screen to inject color into the fluid, or tap to drop a splash. On a phone, swipe with your finger — you can even use several fingers at once. Open Menu to change the flow, glow, and palette, load a preset, or save your creation.

Yes. Save Image captures the current view as a high-resolution PNG, rendered larger than your screen so it stays crisp as a desktop or phone wallpaper.

Yes. The Record Video button captures the live canvas as an MP4 video (WebM in Firefox), at the resolution and frame rate you pick. Press it to start, press again to stop, and the file downloads to your device. Keep the tab in front while recording.

They change the mood. Spectrum cycles the full rainbow, Warm stays in reds and oranges like a real oil projection, Cool stays in blues and violets, Mono uses a single tint, and Custom lets you pick your own colors.

Yes. Oilwheel supports multi-touch. On lower-powered devices it automatically lowers the simulation resolution to stay smooth, and you can raise or lower Quality yourself in the menu.

A 1960s projection technique: artists put colored oil, water, and dye between glass plates on an overhead projector and moved them by hand to throw flowing color behind live bands. Oilwheel recreates that look with a real-time fluid simulation.

A lava lamp blobs slowly on its own. Oilwheel reacts to your touch in real time — you push the fluid wherever you drag. For other flowing visuals try Silent Liquidity or Aqua Force.

Yes, completely free and entirely browser-based. No account, no download, and your artwork never leaves your device — the simulation, glow, and export all run locally.

The real-time WebGL fluid solver is the open-source WebGL-Fluid-Simulation by Pavel Dobryakov, used under the MIT License. Chris Pirillo built the liquid light show experience around it.