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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 (34 posts) | Write A Review |
 | May 2 2009 |
FYREFLYE Worked beautifully on OS 10.4.11; crashes on opening with 10.5.6
(Version 2.7b15a) | |
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 | 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)
(Version 2.7b15a) | |
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 | May 1 2009 |
MACROB Ok. I removed the .saver file and the folders in application support. I re-downloaded and installed again, and it seems to work fine.
(Version 2.7b15a) | |
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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.
(Version 2.7b15) | |
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| May 1 2009 |
PETER DA SILVA IMPORTANT NOTE: 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. | |
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| May 1 2009 |
PETER DA SILVA Now it says "error connecting to server". Bother.
(Version 2.7b15) | |
| May 1 2009 |
MACROB 2.7 crashes system prefs as soon as it's selected. MacPro 10.5.6, 13 GB ram, and I've never used this before, so I don't have the old version still installed.
(Version 2.7b15) | |
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| May 1 2009 |
GAZMAN Ditto.
(Version 2.7b15) | |
| May 1 2009 |
HAWAIIAN STARMAN Same crash here. I posted a crash report at the developer's site.
(Version 2.7b15) | |
| May 1 2009 |
PETER DA SILVA Same here, Mac mini G4, 10.5.6
(Version 2.7b15) | |
| Apr 24 2009 |
SPOTSPOT The version listed here no longer exists. The 2.6 server is being shut down. You must upgrade to 2.7, see http://community.electricsheep.org/node/509 http://electricsheep.org for the latest. --Spot (the developer)
(Version 2.6.9) | |
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| Apr 24 2009 |
SPOTSPOT btw, thank you for the very kind comments below :)
(Version 2.6.9) | |
| 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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| Aug 6 2007 |
JASARTHUR Really fine and creative, highly detailed graphics--just wish it lasted longer before recycling!
(Version 2.6.7) | |
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| Aug 18 2006 |
SIDETRACKED A clarification to my review below. Although it took 48 hours before I used it, to be clear it was downloading unseen in the background during that time. I was using the computer normally, with no loss of speed. The computer was also going in and out of sleep. Didn't want people to think the computer had to be sitting open on the program that long!
(Version 2.6.7) | |
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