This has been
around for a while, and I know a couple of designers who use it on a regular basis just because it is gorgeous to
behold.
Electric Sheep is a screensaver, open source, cross platform, and free.
However, it uses distributed computing of a sort to generate massively complex fractal animations that grow over time,
and evolve in complexity. It's impossible to describe the images created. You can view a gallery
here. My tip when you run this is to give it some time.
The best images take several hours to generate, but they are worth it. There are music videos with the Sheep, a high-def
version, and you can get more
Sheep via Bittorrent. All cool
stuff, but ultimately just some neat eye candy.
Tags: electric sheep, ElectricSheep, freeware, mods, opensource, screensaver
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsBennington PurcellFeb 9th 2006 4:18PM
I downloaded this a while back and JUST LOVE IT!!!!! it is beautiful. i really wish that they made better musical visualizations for itunes and such.
TannerFeb 9th 2006 7:36PM
Wow! Brilliant!
NeekFeb 9th 2006 7:52PM
Ok, so i downloaded it, and i set it as my screensaver, bus all it says is that it's downloading the first sheep, but its been saying this for a while. whats wrong?
PeterFeb 9th 2006 10:04PM
Neek - it can take a few hours to get started. I found the best thing was to leave it run overnight and you will have a few sheep in the morning.
tppFeb 10th 2006 2:19PM
So I left this thing up all night to download my sheep.
Nothing turned up by this morning, so I decided to look at what's going on. Turns out it's downloading the sheep from http://ethereal.net.nyud.net:8090/~spot/ That's all good, except that port 8090 is filtered where I work, so no electric sheep for me.
tppFeb 10th 2006 2:31PM
You can download the sheep directly as well. Once the download is done, save them onto the mpeg sub directory of your electric sheep cache directory.
There's plenty of them available on the Electric Sheep website. Check out the samples section.
Scott DravesFeb 11th 2006 5:20PM
Thanks glad you like the Sheep.
The best way to download more sheep faster is with BitTorrent.
See http://draves.org/blog/archives/000364.html
tppFeb 13th 2006 6:50PM
BitTorrent ports are most DEFINITELY going to be blocked if 8090 is.