Comments on: Need Wicked Awesome Screensaver

Question: Need Wicked Awesome Screensaver

parallax7d — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 07:48:29 -0800

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.

By: yeahyeahyeahwhoo

yeahyeahyeahwhoo — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 07:50:08 -0800

the ones on this site are awesome!

http://www.reallyslick.com/

By: prostyle

prostyle — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 07:51:29 -0800

Drempels

By: Chunder

Chunder — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 07:52:33 -0800

Electric Sheep is cool if you've got a broadband/cable ("always on") internet connection...

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:01:55 -0800

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.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:02:58 -0800

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.

By: cmonkey

cmonkey — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:04:54 -0800

xscreensaver comes with a screensaver of pacman playing randomly generated levels. That is what you should be putting up there.

By: mike_bling

mike_bling — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:26:56 -0800

Grid based clock screensaver for You, by build.
I use it, it's pretty choice.

By: nadawi

nadawi — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:28:59 -0800

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.

By: Danelope

Danelope — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:45:53 -0800

The Moppi Flower Saver (direct link) is pretty damn cool, and reacts to playing music in ways that typical "visualization" screensavers don't.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:19:32 -0800

Electric Sheep is the one and only.

By: whatitis

whatitis — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:58:58 -0800

Electric Sheep is the best EV-ER.... end of thread

By: flipmiester99

flipmiester99 — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 10:39:12 -0800

odinsdream...what is the name of the screensaver you are refering to?

By: junesix

junesix — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:14:35 -0800

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.

By: adamfunman

adamfunman — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:28:22 -0800

great thread... finally time to give up my flying toasters.

By: ryanrs

ryanrs — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:44:29 -0800

iKaleid kaleidoscope simulation. It uses OpenGL GPU programs to simulate the internal reflections in a kaleidoscope. Runs on Macs.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 14:07:20 -0800

flipmiester99: The application is DriftNet, and you can make it into a screen saver with some information on that page.

By: metaculpa

metaculpa — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:51:52 -0800

( 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. )

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:11:34 -0800

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.

By: dorian

dorian — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:01:54 -0800

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)

By: rob511

rob511 — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:32:38 -0800

I nominate Marine Aquarium. Their savers are beautiful, detailed, customizable, and they offer occasional upgrades. Beats cleaning fishtanks hands-down!