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Electric Sheep is a screen saver that owes its name to Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. It realizes the collective dream of sleeping computers from all over the internet.
When the screen-saver is activated, the screen goes black and an animated 'sheep' appears [note: sheep = beautiful, fractal based, mpeg2 compressed animations- this does not put hopping sheep all over your screen].. Behind the scenes, the screen-saver contacts a server and joins the parallel computation of new sheep. Samples are available.
Every fifteen minutes 24/7 a
When the screen-saver is activated, the screen goes black and an animated 'sheep' appears [note: sheep = beautiful, fractal based, mpeg2 compressed animations- this does not put hopping sheep all over your screen].. Behind the scenes, the screen-saver contacts a server and joins the parallel computation of new sheep. Samples are available.
Every fifteen minutes 24/7 a
What's New
Version 2.7b34: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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| Downloads:137,558 |
| Version Downloads:956 |
| Type:Utilities : Screen Savers |
| License:Free |
| Date:13 Apr 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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Electric Sheep is a screen saver that owes its name to Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. It realizes the collective dream of sleeping computers from all over the internet.
When the screen-saver is activated, the screen goes black and an animated 'sheep' appears [note: sheep = beautiful, fractal based, mpeg2 compressed animations- this does not put hopping sheep all over your screen].. Behind the scenes, the screen-saver contacts a server and joins the parallel computation of new sheep. Samples are available.
Every fifteen minutes 24/7 a new sheep is born and distributed to all clients for display. Each sheep is an animated fractal flame.
When the screen-saver is activated, the screen goes black and an animated 'sheep' appears [note: sheep = beautiful, fractal based, mpeg2 compressed animations- this does not put hopping sheep all over your screen].. Behind the scenes, the screen-saver contacts a server and joins the parallel computation of new sheep. Samples are available.
Every fifteen minutes 24/7 a new sheep is born and distributed to all clients for display. Each sheep is an animated fractal flame.
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2.7b34 released. changelog:
- fixed issue where launching standalone application before screen saver just after installation corrupted content directory path and subsequent download attempts were failing on low disk space. - blacking out non-primary monitors during full screen mode in standalone application can be now set in preference dialog. - fixed issue where attribution image would have mixed up color palette. - fixed possible stutter in some rare cases - some other minor improvements.
- plus all other fixes shared with Windows version
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As I recall, this was not the case with my older Macs which had smaller monitors, such as a 17" screen. However, on a 24" iMac -- 3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo -- and a 27" iMac -- 2.88 GHz Quad Core i7 with 8 GB of RAM -- as I said, it looks rather awful.
Also, I have never seen anything as beautiful as the exotic images which are used to advertise this software.
If there is a solution to the low-quality image problem, I'd really like to hear it.
Is anyone else experiencing this fuzziness on large monitors?
Thanks!
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alas! reviewed on 14 Sep 2011
This current ES version works just fine for me, no slowdowns or glitches here.
Some of the generated imagery seems sharper than in earlier versions.
Of course, what ES sorely lacks is a method for capturing and saving screen shots.
Nevertheless, ES is an aesthetic tour de force in creative brilliance.
Totally mind blowing....oh yeah!
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Since I object to that yearly tax, I just stay with my original purchased version which works just fine.
Updates are not mandatory.
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siddhartha reviewed on 02 May 2009
Only problem-I wish that it would work on 2 screens-I have 2 screens, and one is simply blank while the screensaver runs.
Would be great if it would span the screens, or run separately on both (even mirror would be nice)
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thus.spake.z reviewed on 01 May 2009
What E.S. lacks, however, is method to capture screenshots, which G-Force already has.
E.S. sorely needs that feature.
I think that it would be a very interesting collaboration for the developers of both E.S. and G-Force to work together and combine techniques.
Anyway, been using E.S. for some time now and loving it. In light of the apparent glitches with E.S. 2.7b15, I'll stick with version 2.6 for now and wait for the beta to evolve into a stable version.
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or just
http://electricsheep.org for the latest.
--Spot (the developer)
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http://community.electricsheep.org/download
Woo hoo!
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Since this is OT, if anyone else is having general issues (or better yet, knows the solution), try looking at this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10210603#10210603
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I re-downloaded and installed again, and it seems to work fine.
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From the Electric Sheep website...
Before the new hotfix is out. If you have a crash running screensaver just after installation of b15, please try the following:
After installation, check if all folders on the path "~/Library/Application Support/ElectricSheep/content" exist. If not, please recreate those missing manually.
Or just launch this in Terminal:
cd ~;mkdir -p "`pwd`/Library/Application Support/ElectricSheep/content";cd -
When all folders are created, the screen saver should not crash anymore.
I am working on the patch and b15a should be out soon.
If it still crash for you, please let me know.
Thanks,
Daniel
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MacPro 10.5.6, 13 GB ram, and I've never used this before, so I don't have the old version still installed.
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Version 2.6.6 won't run on my system where older versions did. All I get is a black screen. My Electric Sheep folder only has two files now - data020c.000 and gen202
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Myka rated on 12 Dec 2011
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Karunapod rated on 07 Nov 2011
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Sarazil rated on 15 Sep 2011