Electric Sheep – Best Screensaver Ever

I ran across this a week or so ago. www.electricsheep.org.


Not only is it one of the most visually stunning screensavers I’ve seen, but it’s a pretty cool concept. When the screensaver activates, it downloads the latest designs, or “sheep”, from the server. It also joins in the collective computation of new sheep. A new sheep is created every 15 minutes, 24 hours a day, so there is always something new happening on your screen.

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5 Responses to Electric Sheep – Best Screensaver Ever

  1. Peter says:

    That’s one brilliant screensaver, just installed it and its absolutely stunning. The only downside is that the animation loops very obviously which can get quite annoying.

  2. AD says:

    just one word: PERFEKT!!!

  3. Golumbus says:

    Nice psychedelix. Agree with Peter, seems to get stuck on last (lost) sheep.

  4. spot says:

    Thanks i’m glad you like electric sheep.
    It takes the screen-saver a while to
    download enough sheep to avoid a lot
    of looping. Let it run overnight to
    really get going. I would also recommend
    increasing the cache size to allow a
    large flock and hence more variety.
    Any further questions feel free to ask
    on the discussion forum on electricsheep.org.
    best, -spot

  5. Keith Peters says:

    I now have half my office hooked on the sheep. It really freaks people out when someone has their laptop on a projector giving a client demonstration, and the sheep kick in on the big screen! 🙂

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