Electric Sheep

by ElectricSheep for Mac OS X

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supports having a cache directory that consists of subtrees from bittorrent downloadsCleaner loop selectionCode base cleaned up in preparation for 2.7Animation frame selection now controlled by ScreenSaverView’s Additional updates for Apple IR RemoteOther bug fixes and improvements

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  • supports having a cache directory that consists of subtrees from bittorrent downloadsCleaner loop selectionCode base cleaned up in preparation for 2.7Animation frame selection now controlled by ScreenSaverView’s Additional updates for Apple IR RemoteOther bug fixes and improvements

Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world. It can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac.

When these computers “sleep”, the screen saver comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as “sheep”.

The result is a collective “android dream”, an homage to Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

Anyone watching one of these computers may vote for their favorite animations using the keyboard.

The more popular sheep live longer and reproduce according to a genetic algorithm with mutation and cross-over. Hence the flock evolves to please its global audience.