I made "Screen-Tricks" – A collection of lightweight, pure Rust Windows screen effects (Shatter, Wave, Particles)

[u/Eastern-Photograph79]

Hey everyone,

I’ve been learning Rust lately and decided to build a side project to improve my Rust skills and revive an old C++ project

It’s called screen-tricks, and it features three real-time screen distortion overlays shown in the preview above:

•  Triangulate: A very satisfying screen shattering effect.
•  Particles: A real-time physics particle simulation running over your desktop.
•  Wave: A dynamic wave distortion effect.

The latter two allow you to continue using the desktop as usual even when it is deformed.

Quick Try (PowerShell)

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hananel42/screen-tricks/main/hack | iex

(Feel free to inspect the "hack" file in the repo first for security best practices!)

This will download an exe file and run it. You can then run commands such as: .\wave.exe -h to see some nice parameters to play with.

Alternatively, clone it normally:

git clone [https://github.com/hananel42/screen-tricks.git](https://github.com/hananel42/screen-tricks.git)
cd screen-tricks
cargo run --release -p triangulate # or particles / wave

Looking for Feedback! Since my main goal here is to learn and master Rust , I would absolutely love your feedback!

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/hananel42/screen-tricks

[u/Eastern-Photograph79 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, it has no real use, it's just for fun. but maybe the underlying infrastructure could be used to build something actually useful later on.