Your screensaver is boring.
Electric Sheep(Linux, OSX) produces animated flame fractals rendered via distributed computation.
n 0 time(Win) draws its data from things such as a custom word list, cached web site text, your favorites, or your cookies.
The Bank of Time(Win2k-, OS9-) grows plants based on your idle time connected to the net.
Dirty Fingerprints(Win) leaves fingerprints all over your screen, generated by user clicks on contributing sites. Or, if you really want, you can join in the effort to
crack various encryption methods(most systems) at Distributed.net.
Deskswap(
prev. link) has unfortunately been offline for months, due to bandwidth issues.
posted by Su
on Sep 22, 2002 -
18 comments
The
Read_Me Festival 1.2 shortlist has been posted, and includes such projects as
Carnivore(not the government one, though that was part of the concept), and the
DeskSwap screensaver. While this is a "software art" exhibition, it's of particular note that patches or
even just instructions for making existing software do things not originally intended are allowable entries. I haven't been through all of them to see if any patches were entered, but it'd be interesting what the publishers might think of these, since it would basically constitute hacking and/or reverse engineering.
posted by Su
on Mar 30, 2002 -
2 comments
