Need Wicked Awesome Screensaver

November 4, 2005 7:48 AM

I need a wicked awesome screensaver. Post your favorites if you have em. (preferably symmetric/3d) My work is letting me use a 50" plasma screen as my work monitor until we get it installed in another building! I need something, short of a 3d video game, to impress nerds with.
posted by parallax7d to computers & internet (20 comments total)

the ones on this site are awesome!

http://www.reallyslick.com/
posted by yeahyeahyeahwhoo at 7:50 AM on November 4, 2005

Drempels
posted by prostyle at 7:51 AM on November 4, 2005

Electric Sheep is cool if you've got a broadband/cable ("always on") internet connection...
posted by Chunder at 7:52 AM on November 4, 2005

Drempels is awesome. If you go for it - edit the INI file by hand to slow it waaaay down. It then resembles a static image unless you watch it carefully enough to notice it's changing.
posted by odinsdream at 8:01 AM on November 4, 2005

Or you could go for that network sniffer that watches for images on webpages people in your office visit, and it makes a dynamic collage of them all. This could be potentially (ironically?) NSFW.
posted by odinsdream at 8:02 AM on November 4, 2005

xscreensaver comes with a screensaver of pacman playing randomly generated levels. That is what you should be putting up there.
posted by cmonkey at 8:04 AM on November 4, 2005

Grid based clock screensaver for You, by build.
I use it, it's pretty choice.
posted by mike_bling at 8:26 AM on November 4, 2005

Out of bordom the other day I changed my screen saver to pipes. it's actually impressed the geeks i surround myself with. they're simple creatures.
posted by nadawi at 8:28 AM on November 4, 2005

The Moppi Flower Saver (direct link) is pretty damn cool, and reacts to playing music in ways that typical "visualization" screensavers don't.
posted by Danelope at 8:45 AM on November 4, 2005

Electric Sheep is the one and only.
posted by five fresh fish at 9:19 AM on November 4, 2005

Electric Sheep is the best EV-ER.... end of thread
posted by whatitis at 9:58 AM on November 4, 2005

odinsdream...what is the name of the screensaver you are refering to?
posted by flipmiester99 at 10:39 AM on November 4, 2005

http://www.idle-time.org/download.html

Holding Pattern turns your idle computer screen into an airplane window, complete with a moving aerial view. Each time the screensaver plays a unique sequence.

Still my favorite screensaver - use it at home and work. I'd imagine on a 50" plasma, you'd get some hilarious double-takes as people suddenly get this odd feeling they're in a plane. Very unique and fun as far as screensavers go.
posted by junesix at 11:14 AM on November 4, 2005

great thread... finally time to give up my flying toasters.
posted by adamfunman at 1:28 PM on November 4, 2005

iKaleid kaleidoscope simulation. It uses OpenGL GPU programs to simulate the internal reflections in a kaleidoscope. Runs on Macs.
posted by ryanrs at 1:44 PM on November 4, 2005

flipmiester99: The application is DriftNet, and you can make it into a screen saver with some information on that page.
posted by odinsdream at 2:07 PM on November 4, 2005

( I recently learned that I live down the street from Scott Draves, who made electric sheep. I can't quite explain how excited I was. Even better than the red robot that we had painted on our house for a while. )
posted by metaculpa at 4:51 PM on November 4, 2005

Tell Scott he's a god for me, k? Also, I would like our flock of sheep to start showing signs of developing bloodlines, such that an individual farmer can raise specific breeds, and that the community might discover means of cross-breeding them usefully.
posted by five fresh fish at 5:11 PM on November 4, 2005

bar none: sgi's electropaint. aka stonerview.
osx, lunix (and classic macos), win32.

(also, the lunix version is contained in the rss-glx package of gl screensavers)
posted by dorian at 6:01 PM on November 4, 2005

I nominate Marine Aquarium. Their savers are beautiful, detailed, customizable, and they offer occasional upgrades. Beats cleaning fishtanks hands-down!
posted by rob511 at 6:32 PM on November 4, 2005