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A Fantastic Screen Saver - Electric Sheep

No one actually asked me, but.... this is just too cool.

Today's monitors don't really require screen savers (which were designed to prevent "burn in"). But, there are some pretty neat ones out there.

For the MAC and PC, I recommend you check out ElectricSheep. Totally awesome mathmatics based animated imagery. So very fast, so very beautiful. Check out their home page for more samples and videos. The stills shown below just can't do justice to the real thing - check it out.

From their web site:

"Electric Sheep is an open source screen saver founded by Scott Draves. It's run by thousands of people all over the world, and can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep", the screen saver comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as "sheep". The result is a collective "android dream", an homage to Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep."


Images by Scott Draves and the Electric Sheep


 

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