I’ve lost count how many different Windows Vista Auroras I’ve seen but boy there’s something about translucent blue and green waves that makes me want more. Here is a very cool dark variation of the Aurora found in Steve Ballmer’s presentation slides at the “Expression around the clock” event in Zurich.
The highest resolution I could extract it at was 1500×1125, but it still makes a great wallpaper.
Is it me or does the Aurora Screensaver in Vista look really bad?
I said at a first glance that it’s cool but as a wallpaper? no no, not good. it’s doesn’t look right.
I agree, the Aurora Screensaver looks as bad as the screen returning from Hibernation.
I like the screen you get when you return from hibernation, but the Aurora screensaver does look like crap.
I’ve been using DreamScene since it was released in “final” form.
This wallpaper looks a little bit too dull.
And yes, I agree the aurora screensaver is really grim.
Why not simply use real auroras? http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0710/aurora_kuenzli_big.jpg
And I agree: the screensaver is horrible. I hope that the designer/developer got fired. Ballmers speak doesn’t make any sense when Microsoft ships its most important product with such bad designed content.
I clicked on the link but the image is completely black!
tino…lol. the real thing is always better
where’s the wallpaper? I only see a black image
@Tino: That is a really nice photograph…
I gotta say … It looks pretty good as the background on a 24-inch iMac!
are you joking? I only see a completely black image. Where’s aurora? PLEASE GIVE ME AN ANSWER!
@mik I guess your display brightness is too low? It’s a really dark aurora.
Nice wallpaper but its to dark
It’s ridiculously too dark. Unless you’re a monitor brightness whore (aka Long), don’t bother.
I like it – it’s subtle. I imagine you do need to be looking at it on a decent screen.
Can we get a dreamscene for this please
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It looks better when you actually set it as your wallpaper.
I think in my opinion, its not much of an aurora wallpaper image to me. I sure do know how aurora should look like. But not this. I those commented on this post. Think of something else otherwise.
Something like a river scenic with an evening blue sky nights streaming along of auroras. What do you think of that?
i think da pic was utterly unfathomable, as if i have seen better aurora pics in other sites. But anyway its nice seeing sum1 who appreciates true art. Hey, i mean it. I’m a pessisimist.
This is cool: open CMD in Windows Vista (in the startmenu, type: cmd) and type “start winsat aurora”
your aero will go off, and you get something nice… press ESC to close… aero will go back on…
Hi, I’d like to use this picture as a background in a text video. Do you know who holds the copyright to the picture, or where I could ask permission? I tried to google the picture but the only place it comes up is this blog.
Thanks
I THINK THIS IS FABULOUS FOR THE ARTISTIC EYS. NEVERMIND THE NEGATIVE COMMENTS
KOHAR
when you are assigning this as wallpaper the POSITION has to be set to CENTER or else the image will appear black.
People………….. This background is wonderful. Too Dark! Are you serious….? You mean you don’t have the ability to take it into Photoshop and lighten it up, change the color, or just play with the design? Really people…. this design is very nice. Great job.
This is a great background. Nice to finally have a decent dark background. I even made it darker in the lower right in photoshop lol. A bigger size like 1680×1050 would be nice but stretch doesn’t rape it too bad.
this looks great on my galaxy tab thanks to the uploader