The coolest thing is, there's always new ones being generated by everyone running it.
http://electricsheep.org/
Still pictures really don't do it justice...
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AJ DaSilva
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02-12-2006 18:38
Okay, starts off a little boring since it needs time to download it's content from the internet and doesn't do it all that quickly. But it's sooo damned pretty. It's like universes crystallizing or something.
The coolest thing is, there's always new ones being generated by everyone running it. http://electricsheep.org/ Still pictures really don't do it justice... |
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AJ DaSilva
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02-13-2006 12:45
Can't have this on the second page, I need more people's computing power to make my eyes happy!
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Zuzu Fassbinder
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02-13-2006 14:51
I looked at the link. They are pretty pictures, but why do they need to communicate with other computers on the network, other than voting for your favorite? I think I'm missing something.
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AJ DaSilva
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02-13-2006 14:58
The images aren't created at runtime - they're little video clips. The computers running the screensaver are essentially a big render farm to generate said videos.
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Torley Linden
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02-13-2006 14:59
<a la Keanu Reaves>Whoa.</a la Keanu Reaves>
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Zuzu Fassbinder
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02-13-2006 15:10
The images aren't created at runtime - they're little video clips. The computers running the screensaver are essentially a big render farm to generate said videos. Ah, okay.  What kind of algorithm are they using? Some sort of fractal generator? .... heh, got curious and found my own answer:Distributed computing also has an aesthetic side. Consider the Electric Sheep project, dreamed up by San Francisco artist and programmer Scott Draves. The program has a “hall of mirrors” quality to it. It’s a screen saver that generates new screen savers: incandescent fractal animations that twirl on the computer screen with a pulsing intensity. Draves wrote the original code for the graphics, which he called a fractal flame algorithm, more than a decade ago. It was capable of generating mesmerizing animations, but there was a catch. He needed a farm of high-end computers and a few months to do the rendering just to generate a single 10-second sequence. _____________________
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AJ DaSilva
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02-13-2006 15:17
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Nyoko Salome
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i've used it before...
02-13-2006 15:43
hadn't loaded it yet on my new machine. watching it (or, that is, the rendered clips
in action is indescribably trippy - giant fractal fields twisting up, they end up looking like very realistic smoke or vaport... (also, unfortunately, they usually twirl a bit too fast for me to really admire them in detail - really appreciate the screenshots!_____________________
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