Have you seen electric sheep?

I downloaded this screen saver today (Electric Sheep) and it is pretty cool. It uses distributed computing like the SETI project to create beautiful images that evolve thru a type of virtual life.

I was at a party and met the creator Spot; he was showing off his product, "Dreams in high fidelity", a dual processor linux box that runs the program in HD- it was insane! The swirling colors morph into other patterns in a fluid motion. Very cool. Way more advanced than other visualization programs like in itunes or even the electric sheep screensaver itself.

Unfortunately it uses a lot of hard disk space and cpu power. And it doesn't react to music or external stimulus, it just flows and changes. I say check it out and be impressed!

That's absolutely amazing! WAY SWEET!!

I've had this on for a while and have some cool animations. It's not the usual fractal stuff...

I thought you were posting about the movie made from the Philip K. **** novel - do andriods dream of electric sheep.

one of my favorite sci fi movies.


blade runner

Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty - pure evil.

I've never seen an electric sheep, but I saw an electric penguin on TV.

... i n ... t a s t i n g ...

As Markdi said...only in my dreams...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Hey Folks,

Here's an interesting website that functions on the same vein as SETI@Home, but creating and morphing fractal curves instead of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence. The results of the system are rather spectacular and make for an intriguing screen saver. I figured some folks here might be interested in it - the sheep that have loaded on my machine have been quite nice so far.

http://www.electricsheep.org/

It will take some time to download the first sheep, so be patient. It's best to let the software run over night and accumulate a few sheep. The website has more details and a history - check it out.

-Enrique

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This is called "distributed computing" or "grid computing." Try http://boinc.berkeley.edu for a whole mess o' grid apps.

And yes, they do.

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IMO the one with the best purpose is Folding@Home, and we already have a CPF team. Sign up with team ID 32102.
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Sigbjoern

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Im already using electricsheep for about a month, its the most beautifull screensaver I installed to date.


Pablo

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Is this going to be murder on a 1ghz P3?

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I could almost guarantee it. (unless you manage to overclock it)
-tom

Now more have seen the sheep...

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Trashman said:

Is this going to be murder on a 1ghz P3?

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Cornkid said:

I could almost guarantee it. (unless you manage to overclock it)
-tom

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Trashman,

Go ahead and try it, doesn't hurt. I'm running is on a 1.6GHz Centrino machine just fine. They are just movie files, after all.

Thought I'd add this video to the thread. It is a lecture by the creator Scott Draves. If you dig mathematical visualization lectures check this out. It's not a psychedleic show; it's an explanation of the theory and concepts behind the program.

Tricky pictures. I like these, but I find myself blankly staring at the screen far to often.