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.
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