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jgpaiva:
Here's a little something to help the solution:
I just found at snapfiles this: Flash Wallpaper. This program allows you to use a .swf file as wallpaper.
Now, all we need is a flash file that looks good as a wallpaper! :D

jgpaiva:
An here's yet another option!
EarthWatcher
EarthWatcher uses two satellite images to create a map of the Earth on your desktop, that displays the areas of the globe where the sun is shining. You can set the interval to update the image, have it display the sun at zenith, save the image to a file and more. Makes a nice, dynamic wallpaper.-http://www.snapfiles.com/get/earthwatcher.html
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jsmallberry:
I had a similar idea, although too complex for Coding Snacks, related none the less.  The idea is to use DirectX (or OpenGL) to “walk through” a 3D scene such as a stylized city.  And this would be the desktop background.  The camera would slowly move throughout the city (or any 3D scene), maybe around the equivalent of 0.5 to 1 mile an hour, slightly slower than walking speed, so as not to distract you from doing your work on the computer, but over time, gives you a sense of movement.  The problem is, who wants to devote all the CPU/GPU time and memory for this?  Well, I though of using a second computer with video out and a video input card, such as the ATI AIW on the main computer.  The ATI software, can display the video image as the desktop background, without taking any CPU/GPU or memory (it’s just a video overlay), I guess other video hardware/software can do the same.  The second computer generates the 3D imagery and sends it to its video out to the video in of the main computer.  Maybe too, it’s possible to use a 3D rendering software, like 3DS Max or Maya, to generate nice final rendering images, instead of using DirectX.  With the low resolution of video composite (640x480) and the slow moving nature of the 3D scene, the final rendering software may be able to serve it fast enough.

Just thought I would share the idea.

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Similar applications:
(Use at your own risk)
There's

http://vital-desktop.sourceforge.net/

and

WallsMedia Desktop Wallpaper Player http://wallsmedia.narod.ru/

f0dder:
Flash for ActiveDesktop sounds like a very bad idea, considering how flash tends to hog your CPU. Might be a solution for a screensaver, though.

jsmallberry: walking around a not-too-complex scene without super-highres textures and too many shader effects shouldn't eat up too much ram or CPU processing time, so it should be doable.

I've never really messed with ActiveDesktop, so I don't know if need to do a ActiveX control or whatever - or a html page loading a java applet ;). But ActiveDesktop is one solution - another would be setting desktop background to some very specific color (ugly pink is usually used), then render to a video overlay with the desktop background color as colorkey.

I've even gotten videos to "play in mIRC" this way :)

igors:
The images I got (months ago) were from https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid but tonight I can't seem to get to them

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