Michael Harper’s Tech & Art Blog

I finally get to plug a screensaver that’s available for Linux. There aren’t too many outstanding ones around and I’m still searching for a way to use Mac and Windows screensavers in Linux. This screensaver uses the power of fractals and grid computing to create completely unique and visually stunning “fractal flame” based screensavers. A computer that is using the Electric Sheep screensaver will connect everyday to the ES servers to download new art. Users can get involved and create their own fractal flames or let the machines rule us by mixing the available fractal flame code together to create its own offspring. I’m trying to get some more info from the site but for some reason it’s down right now (www.electricsheep.org). Despite that, I remember the site as being not so well developed (most of their time is apparently spent making great screensavers). Instead check out the wikipedia article that is very clean and to the point - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Sheep.