The Electric Sheep Screen-saver
Good stuff, Techie Stuff, art July 4th, 2008I ran across this today and tried it - so worth it.
It’s a screen-saver that does mutating, “genetic” computer-generated animated art for your screen-saver, and distributes these across the internet to everyone else who has the screen-saver installed, and users can vote for or against the various “electric sheep” (up arrow key votes yes, down votes no) so that cooler ones get promoted. I took the following image from the sites gallery of current images (which fluctuates - they render new “sheep” images from user’s machines during idle time/bandwidth) and scaled it up - it’s a desktop now.
This is a link to the image because the thumbnail isn’t working for some reason.
I love that MATRIX screen-saver I found and will probably go back to it from time to time. Meanwhile, this.