The Electric Sheep Screensaver
I don’t know how many people look at this blog, but I thought I’d put out a word on the electricsheep screensaver.
Electricsheep is a screensaver available for Windows, Mac and Linux. In my opinion, is simply the most beautiful screensaver available today. I do not know how many people use it, but I know I’m doing my part to promote it.
The screensaver uses distributed processing to develop frames of various fractal animations (called ’sheep’) The beauty of this is that the fractals are generated while the screensaver is running. The name ‘electricsheep’ comes from a Phillip K. Dick story, and is appropriate, as the frames are generated while your computer is ’sleeping’ These frames are shared with others and compiled into animated fractals. The various animations change over time as new sheep are generated. In an evolutionary process some sheep are merged, others die out. I call electric sheep the collective dream of the internet.
Promoting electricsheep is actually pretty easy. Install it on someone’s machine and show them where they can download it. I’ve installed it on my father’s laptop, and he has already had several of his co-workers ask him for it.
Check out the electrisheep.org website for static images and more information.
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You came in a google search for cool xwinwrap stuff – I just set this as my background! Thanks for the hint
I would like to know how to put all the mpegs together. Like a film!
Some clues????
Thanx
If you wanted the sheep to flow smoothly, you’d have to figure out their naming convention. There are two different types of sheep: one type are loops, the others are transitions. The regular sheep flow into one another using the transitions to link them together so they ‘flow’.
I don’t know whats out there, but ahead nero has worked for video editing small stuff like this in the past.