Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world. It can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep", the screen saver comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as "sheep". The result is a collective "android dream", an homage to Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

Anyone watching one of these computers may vote for their favorite animations using the keyboard. The more popular sheep live longer and reproduce according to a genetic algorithm with mutation and cross-over. Hence the flock evolves to please its global audience.

[url]http://www.electricsheep.org[/url]

Re: Electric Sheep

i've had this for quite some time now and it is awesome. your screensaver is constantly changing and the images (extremely complex fractals) are made from thousands of other computers that communicate with eachother and the central server. it only runs when the screensaver is running, so it doesn't interfere with whatever your doing when your at the computer. i think it's pretty cool and the idea behind it is pretty intriguing as well.

Re: Electric Sheep

The movie "Blade Runner" was inspired from his book, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

Other movies based on his books:

Total Recall Minority Report Paycheck

Wired magazine has a great article on him... [url]http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/philip.html[/url]

Re: Electric Sheep

Thanks the links brother!!Good! 8) :!:

Re: Electric Sheep

i'm using this screensaver too, some very nice fractals in there.. 8)

Re: Electric Sheep

WowW man, awesome...tnx 8)

pd: did anyone try the SETI(Search for Extra Terrestrial Inteligence) screensaver?

Re: Electric Sheep

[quote=Fun Boy(eat me)]WowW man, awesome...tnx 8)

pd: did anyone try the SETI(Search for Extra Terrestrial Inteligence) screensaver?[/quote] yeah i used to run that for a while... i guess i needed something with more immediate gratification.. hehe.