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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.

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.6.9 release notes.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Scott Draves
Downloads:75,926
  - Version d/l:19,040
Utilities:Screen Savers
License:Free
Date:07 Oct 2007
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
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    Electric Sheep User Reviews (39 posts)Write A Review
    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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    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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    Jul 19 2006
    ****.

    LETTUCE  Had to go into Options and then into Download to change the default cache from 100 to 1000 despite the ReadMe suggesting that 1000 is, in fact, the suggested size (might want to make it default) before I could get it to do anything.

    Once I did?

    Outstanding. Love it, and would have rated it higher on but for the ease of use bugaboo.  (Version 2.6.7)

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