LivingKiosk · Display 36

Rain

A full-screen curtain of falling glyphs — a bright head, a fading trail, columns at their own speed and length, an occasional glyph that mutates in place. Calm by default: hypnotic, not frantic, and with nothing to click.

About the glyphs: the falling-character genre is old and public — Rain does not reproduce any studio's specific glyph design. runes is an original glyph, procedurally drawn as a short walk of angular line segments on a grid; latin, digits and mixed are ordinary Unicode characters. See the README for the full note.

What it does

Every column is its own drop

Speed, trail length, and the gap before the next drop all vary per column, seeded from the same configuration. Nothing repeats in an obvious cycle.

It works offline

Everything is computed in the browser. No API, no key, no upstream service that can disappear or start charging — Rain makes no outbound request while it runs.

It asks nothing of you

No clicks, no notifications, no colour that means urgency. Configuration lives entirely in the URL, built once on this page.

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Colour

A named preset, or type a custom hex colour.

Speed1.0×

Calm at 1. Each column still varies around whatever you set here.

Density96%

The fraction of columns that rain at all.

Trail length28 cells

How long the fading tail behind each head is, before per-column variation.

Glyph set

runes is Rain’s own original, procedurally drawn glyph — not the film genre’s mirrored-katakana design. The rest are ordinary Unicode.

Direction

Dim0%

Fleet-wide darkening overlay, for a room brighter than the display wants.

Ground

light is unusual for this genre, but supported.

Seed

Pins the column layout and glyph choices. Give two screens the same seed and configuration to have them match.

Live preview

16:9, running for real. It restarts when you change something.

Your kiosk URL

/Open it →

Paste it into whatever holds the screen open. Nothing here is stored — the URL is the whole configuration.

Every parameter

Parameter	Values	Default	Notes
`color`	`green` · `amber` · `cyan` · `white` · `red` · `#hex`	`green`	The glyph colour. Any preset or a literal hex value.
`speed`	0.2–3	`1`	Fall-speed multiplier. Each column still varies around this.
`density`	0.15–1	`0.96`	Fraction of columns that are raining at all, per layer.
`trail`	4–80	`28`	Base trail length in cells. Individual columns vary ±35% around it.
`glyphset`	`runes` · `latin` · `digits` · `mixed`	`runes`	`runes` is Rain's original procedural glyph — see the legal note above.
`direction`	`down` · `up`	`down`	`up` is the easter option — the same rain, rising.
`dim`	0–0.8	`0`	Fleet-wide darkening overlay, for a room brighter than the display wants.
`bg`	`dark` · `light` · `#hex`	`dark`	The ground behind the rain. `light` is unusual but supported.
`seed`	any text	none	Pins the column layout and glyph choices. Two screens with the same seed and configuration match; without one, each load gets its own.