On a mobile phone it makes a lot more sense. Try shaking it!

It doesn’t in my case, I see some weird animation, everything disappears, “pour” button again. Shaking or any other movement doesn’t help. Latest chrome on iOS

The sand is pouring onto the phone screen so if your phone is tilted or upside down it looks illogical

Works for me in Safari — iPhone 17 Pro, all up to date

It helps, if you lock orientation on the phone.

Whenever the phone detects an orientation change, it resets the layout.

I think it responds to tilting, not shaking?

Nothing happens on my android phone

I had that too on brave then realized that brave locks all permissions. It worked as expected in chrome

Maybe it’s too much for my iPhone 13 or something, I can see it but it’s all choppy and slow

Reminds me of this demo game https://store.steampowered.com/app/3216520/Sandcastle/

I wouldn’t call it realistic, sand gets stuck in the air, stones don’t rotate, and there’s quite an uncanny valley effect based on angles. Still a cool demo of what is possible, even though I get 10fps or something on a iPhone 15 Pro

What do you mean "stuck in the air?" It's top down.

They don’t move, not even when pressing with your finger, “stuck on the ground” then, it’s the same outcome.

didnt encounter the stucking issue but agree with the overerall point, the sand gets a sort of 'build-up pressure and bounce back' effect which breaks the immersiveness for me, otherwise cool

This is very fun to play with.

This is really cool and give a realistic sense

I am feeling the sand physically at watching at this, good job!

This is annoying to clean up exactly like real sand.

Zooming on the desktop makes it more dense looking, which is probably not intended but can look very cool IMO.

i feel like i'm watching a stop-motion movie as it moves. very nice

oh wow, the stones even have some water around them. This looks and feels real.

They have different characteristics, too. The red, desert sand is clumpier than the beach sand, for instance.

yup, I would just remove the sound effect completely.

Wow man, very cool.

Found source repo here https://github.com/av/safe-sand

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