LavaLamp3D for Windows

By Rosware
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Download.com staffAugust 24, 2015

An extremely strong feature set boosts what would otherwise be an average screensaver. As you're likely to surmise from its title, this program places a virtual lava lamp on your desktop. In terms of design, the actual lamp itself looks fairly nice, although we wouldn't call it especially realistic. Still, LavaLamp3D more than makes up for its graphics and lack of sound with its enormous amount of user-customization options. You can choose lava style and adjust its movement by tweaking the frame rate, the buoyancy, the surface tension, the viscosity, and the cooling rate. Sliders let you fine-tune the color, saturation, and brightness of the lava particles, the liquid, the lamp, and the background. You can even have the lamp move left to right to further prevent screen damage. We might say we find the 10-day trial period a bit short, but that's a much better arrangement than the adware many screensavers force you to swallow. Anyone who values precise control over their screensaver's appearance will likely be enamored of LavaLamp 3D.

LavaLamp3D for Windows

By Rosware
Trial version
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GENERAL

Release: September 30, 2004

Latest update: August 24, 2015

Version: 1.0

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

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Windows 98
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows 10

Additional Requirements: Windows 98/2000/XP

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5/5

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It's OK
fucialOctober 19, 2004
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Now for an opinion from someone not associated with the developers of this program: This is kind of cheesy. The graphics are very early 90's. I must say, the customization you can do to your lava lamp is EXCELLENT. However, the graphics quality needs to catch up to that.
The screenshots donÂ’t to do it justice, download the demo.
October 11, 2004
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Fun to watch!
October 5, 2004
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Wounderful visual nutrients
October 3, 2004
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I appreciated the publisher's good job in the real-time particle simulation. After smooth installation, I had a gougous lava lamp fill my desktop. The screensaver offers much more than what a real laval lamp could do. Numerous settings not only let you adjust the graphical properties like color, brightness, etc., but also allow you to customize a number of simulation parameters, such as the number of particles, surface tension, heat diffusion, cooling rate, and etc., which make the screen saver also a wonderful educational toy. I really like the feature of setting the "color" and "hot color" to automatically change with certain rate, which always give me surpricingly nice visual joy. One of my friends also discovered that when you zoom in enough, you can actually get into the lava lamp, so that what you see is a totally different screen saver, in which the abstract dynamic patterns are full of imagination. This would be an excellent art screen saver suiting home or office use.

Developer’s Description

Watch a virtual lava lamp in real time.

LavaLamp3D is a one-of-a-kind screensaver and desktop toy that doesn't just play a boring video loop--it actually simulates and renders a virtual lava lamp in real time, with magical results. LavaLamp3D will provide hours of enjoyment and will never do the same thing twice. User-friendly controls allow you to customize the colors, behaviors, and other aspects of the lava lamp.