But as Elias stared at the center of the image, he noticed something strange. The Windows 7 desktop icons seemed to be casting faint shadows onto the wallpaper itself.
The darkness didn't fall to the ground; it floated, expanding into the air of his room, carrying with it the cold, silent scent of a vacuum. The icons on his desktop—Recycle Bin, Notepad, Network—were floating in the air before him as glowing, three-dimensional light constructs. 2560x1600 Windows 7 Black Wallpaper">
He leaned in closer. The Aero glass transparency of his window borders was refracting light that seemed to be coming from the wallpaper. It was impossible. A bitmap image couldn't interact with the operating system UI like that. But as Elias stared at the center of