Pixel Hourglass

A glass hourglass of glowing sand that drains, piles and flips

A glass hourglass in a turned wooden frame floats in the soft aurora of baubra.com. Tens of thousands of glowing grains of sand trickle through its narrow waist in a fine bright stream, the top sinking into a funnel as a cone piles up below, and every half loop the hourglass slowly turns itself over and starts again. Sweep the mouse through the sand and the grains part around the cursor and settle back; click to scatter them. Pick a style: Baubra's violet and teal, golden Dawn, Starlight blue or Rose.

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