Electric Sheep (Mac)

Softonic Rating:: Very good:8/10
License:: Free
Added:: April 18, 2006
Updated:: October 9, 2007
Publisher:: Electricsheep | More programs (2)
File size:: 1.7 MB
Downloads:: 585

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“See what your Mac dreams of”

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.

Languages:

English

Recent changes in Electric Sheep:

supports having a cache directory that consists of subtrees from bittorrent downloads
Cleaner loop selection
Code base cleaned up in preparation for 2.7
Animation frame selection now controlled by ScreenSaverView's
Additional updates for Apple IR Remote
Other bug fixes and improvements