As BPers are prone to do, I skipped down a rabbit trail in the course of info gathering last night. And where did that trail start? Right here on PC. I was sooo in the dumps and just cruising around PC. Came across a thread called "Star Trek Universe" -- Now, I'm not a Trekker (preferred term, not a mistake), but am a semi-nerd, so down the trail I went. One of the funny pics had a reference to Blade Runner, which is based on the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? For reasons unknown, I couldn't think of the author(!), so Googled. Within a couple more rabbit trails, I learned that Electric Sheep is also a name used for...how to say...morphing, twisting graphics that are contributed to by people around the world.

I was awestruck. They make anything my computer came with as a screensaver look like something made by a child.

A mind-boggling, beautiful rabbit trail indeed...I was up till 7:30 herding Electric Sheep to make a screensaver of stills(!) And am going back for more! Lots more! (Might even get in on it, need to do some more reading and possibly up my nerd quotient, lol.) Found that being so awestruck and working on a beautiful visual project had apparently entranced all my brain cells, because I could think of nothing else. The thing that had had me so very down lost serious brain real estate.

So pass it around, right?! Here is the homepage: http://www.electricsheep.org
Click on "samples" and you can see them in motion. http://www.electricsheep.org/samples
From that page you can click on archives. http://sheep.arces.net
The stills must be screen captures from the motion ones.

A video of Scott Draves, (who started it) talking about the art of it. It is beautiful not only in aesthetics, but concept. An inclusive free worldwide infinite art form from math. What is not to love?! It's freakin' genius.
http://blog.makezine.com/2008/07/13/...gh-fidelity-b/

(Edited to fix URL, it had shortened for some reason.)

that is so cool...

thanks for sharing that

good idea

[BlueInanna]

OMG fow-wow!! Freaking cool, might try to download the iPhone app!! I need to make sure it won't use up too much bandwidth.
Will have to be iPad, no app for phone. I can't wait to try it.

Haha, I know, right?! I don't have an iPad, but have gathered 382 (so far -- but will be tip of iceberg) stills into iPhoto. Then grouped into aesthetically-pleasing "herds" to make screensavers (which is ridiculously fun). I do need to get a motion one too, but can't get my head out of the stills flock long enough to think about it. Lol. "Only" played with it till 3:30am last night, will be heading to the farm again tonight for sure.

Math never looked like this back in the day, that's for sure!