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DESCRIPTION
Electric Sheep is a screensaver 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.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.7: Compared to 2.6, this version has a more expressive visual language, higher resolution (double the pixels per sheep), no periodic stuttering, a better codec (x264), and a dynamic filter to smooth out the dust. And we have a new server with much more capacity (thanks dvlabs).
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
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| Electric Sheep User Reviews (37 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jan 17 2009 |
KKNOPP Best screensaver ever made PERIOD. I have had so many people ask me where to download this it's not even funny. And like the name states, it does help one go to sleep if you stare at it long enough. Very relaxing (Depending on the speed you set it) I've been using this since it came out, and I have always been amazed at the wonderful art it produces.
(Version 2.6.9) | |
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 | Sep 1 2009 |
MABOROSHI Please fix this for Snow Leopard! I love this screen saver!
(Version 2.7b15a) | |
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 | Sep 14 2009 |
MABOROSHI I guess they forgot to update MU, but if you go to their site there is a new SL compatible version up! http://community.electricsheep.org/download Woo hoo!
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 | Sep 14 2009 |
WOODEN BRAIN CONCEPTS Thanks, I just went there myself, and got the update, but it still says it can't be used on this computer. A bit baffled because even older screen savers, including the old version of Electric Sheep, work as-is on my intel laptop also running 10.6.1. But this is not specific to Electric Sheep -- same story also with other supposedly SL compatible screen savers, such as Euphoria 10.2. 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
(Version 2.7b15a) | |
| May 2 2009 |
SIDDHARTHA Fantastic screensaver-one of the best! 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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| May 1 2009 |
THUS.SPAKE.Z As far as screensavers/visualisers go, Electric Sheep is, IMO, in the same league as the wonderful G-Force; both render some incredibly beautiful and breathtaking imagery. 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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| Aug 18 2006 |
SIDETRACKED My Favorite screensaver. Always changing, always evolving. I just sent a donation, since I now use it all the time. It does take forever for the first sheep to download. It took almost 48 hours before I could use it. But, after 2 days I had one working, and in the months since there are always new ones coming and old ones going without my doing anything. Over 5 months it's worked without a hitch. Not sure it's the case for everyone who's had trouble starting it, but maybe it just takes some patience... Really worth trying, very special and very beautiful. Just don't expect it to work in 5 minutes!
(Version 2.6.7) | |
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| Jun 21 2006 |
BASS0 Great screen saver, I love the deep idea behind it. After the first few sheep are downloaded, it becomes much fun to cast the occasional peek when walking past the screen.
(Version 2.6.7) | |
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| Apr 5 2006 |
EJ1 This version 2.6.7 works perfectly for me now.
(Version 2.6.7) | |
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| Mar 2 2006 |
ST00P!D M0NK3Y This is by far the bets looking screensaver I have ever seen. And it's free. It doesn't get any better than that. =)
(Version 2.6.6) | |
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| Nov 7 2005 |
NEHEMA i've been using this creation for a year now and i think it's the most amazing piece of passive software ever. people walk into my studio jabbering madly about this or that project and glance at the screen and BOOM! silence. stuck staring at the screen. some call it a screen saver; i think it's an angel birthing machine. all hail the 24.7 gods of electrosomnambulism.
(Version 2.6.2) | |
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| Aug 15 2009 |
LEE123 They have the crasher fix.
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