chaseleantj/desktop-habitats
Living ecosystems you can interact with on your desktop
About the project
A living aquarium on your macOS desktop: fish react to your cursor and compete for food while plants sway in a slow current. The scene renders locally with Three.js and WebGL2, fully offline.
Useful for
- Install an animated aquarium wallpaper on macOS via install.sh
- Feed the fish from the menu bar and watch them react
- Preview Riverscape in a browser without installing the wallpaper
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 97 stars so far today, about 122 expected by the end of the day.
- The repository is 0 days old and already has 96 stars.
- Top new repositories this week: #125.
- About 36 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 96
- Stars in a day
- 122
- Forks
- 13
- Issues and pull requests
- 5
- Watchers
- 0
- Language
- JavaScript
- License
- MIT
- Created
- September 18, 2026
- Last push
- September 18, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Spotted in
- September 18, 2026Top new repositories this week: #125
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