⛅ Fractal Clouds — Live Sky

Each cloud is an SWCloud object — a cluster of N overlapping SWEllipse puffs placed at randomized offsets around a center point. Real cumulus clouds look exactly like this: rising air cells that merge into a single rounded mass.

Three depth layers (parallax)

• Far layer — upper sky, small, slightly gray and semi-transparent (atmospheric haze), slow drift.
• Mid layer — middle sky, medium-sized, moderate speed.
• Near layer — lower sky, large and bright white, fastest drift, most visible Perlin-noise morph.

This gives the illusion of depth: fast foreground clouds against slow, hazy distant ones — just like looking at a real sky.

Perlin-noise morphing

Every frame, each puff center is nudged by an independent noise() value that drifts slowly over time. The result is organic, ever-changing cloud edges — not rigid ellipses. Each puff uses a spatially unique seed so they all move differently.

Breathing

A slow SWSinusoid gently scales each puff's radius with a staggered phase between adjacent puffs, creating the billowing "boil" you see in real cumulus clouds developing on a warm afternoon.

Controls

• Pause — freeze all motion.
• Wind Speed — scales drift across all layers; negative = leftward wind.
• Puffs per Cloud — more puffs = rounder, more complex clouds; fewer = wispy cirrus-like streaks.
• Cloud Count — total clouds split across the three layers.
• Time of Day — changes sky gradient and cloud tinting (day / sunset / night).
• New Seed — randomizes cloud positions and shapes.
• Factory Reset — restores all default settings.