At Last: 10x better Electric Sheep client for Mac

http://community.electricsheep.org/node/509

by spot • 17 years ago

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spot4• 17 years ago

btw i am looking for iPhone and Android developers.

blasdel3• 17 years ago

Years ago my roommate emailed you when he was excited about rendering a particular sheep at high-res to make a print out of, and your only response was to refer him to your art dealer. Almost immediately the sheep in question was removed from the collection, which led to a serious WTF Dude moment.

It seems like you're planning on getting more communal involvement in the project besides free compute time, and I approve.

spot4• 17 years ago

Wow what blast from the past. That was a requirement for working with that dealer. I have had really mixed reactions and interactions with the art world. That relationship went really far south, unfortunately, and i no longer work with him. And to be clear, the selection of the sheep was mine, not your friends.

Initially i refused to make any of my work available under anything but open source licenses. Alas, that turned out not to pay so well. since then i've tried various compromises between my philosophy, and engaging with society in order to change it (and to make the electric sheep self sustaining). Pulling a handful of genomes out of the many thousands was one. Making limited edition works like hifidreams.com and the just-finished Blu Ray is another.

The next big step is a subscription/freemium model for the screensaver. You can read some about it here: http://community.electricsheep.org/node/492

blasdel3• 17 years ago

It was just a random unfeatured sheep in the slush pile, and it disappeared from the site after he mentioned it.

I guess now that you're employed by Google you won't have to make such compromises for funding.

You really need to be extremely careful about profiting directly from the users' work -- not just their CPU time, but the design of and selection pressure on the sheep themselves. It's especially awful to curate the work of users for private / limited edition works, especially if reserve that privilege for yourself.

bprater• 17 years ago

I've been using Electric Sheep as a screensaver for a long time.

Often, I'll catch myself on the couch watching the screensaver instead of commercials. Really beautiful stuff.

spot4• 17 years ago

thanks.

nickb• 17 years ago

These fractals are absolutely stunning! Who created them and where can I find the equations?

pg• 17 years ago

Scott Draves and http://electricsheep.org/

allenbrunson• 17 years ago

i downloaded this thing and installed it. it looks kind of interesting.

then i started poking around in the config settings, and discovered that it was saving tens of megabytes of mpeg movies to disk. i resent it taking up that much disk space for a screen saver. so i fiddled with the config settings, trying to get it to not save them. after that, it didn't make fractal screen images anymore, just a static image that's primarily an ad for the website. so i deleted the screen saver and all its mpg files.

perhaps there's some bigger purpose to this thing that i'm not getting, but whatever it is, it's not worth tens of megabytes of disk space to me.

At Last: 10x better Electric Sheep client for Mac

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