Electric Sheep (in Off-topic)

Http://www.electricsheep.org

(Just thought I would share to those who might not have this gem)

Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver created by Scott Draves. It's run by thousands of people all over the world, and can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep", the screen saver comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as "sheep". The result is a collective "android dream", an homage to Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.

Anyone watching one of these computers may vote for their favorite animations using the keyboard. The more popular sheep live longer and reproduce according to a genetic algorithm with mutation and cross-over. Hence the flock evolves to please its global audience. You can also design your own sheep and submit them to the gene pool.

Yep, evolved art, me be working in that field with something slightly better. Which is, no need for a human sitting there and voting sheep up or down. But yeah, pretty cool to have a distributed computing GA-art-screensaver combo.

I spent lots of time with Apophysis, which creates fractal flames as well, but in a much more higher quality, todays computers are fast enough to render movies quite fast. Link