gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » electric sheep http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:52:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Electric Sheep Screensaver Freewarehttp://www.ghacks.net/2005/12/20/electric-sheep-screensaver-freeware/ http://www.ghacks.net/2005/12/20/electric-sheep-screensaver-freeware/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:24:58 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=238 electricsheep.org website. Electricsheep is a free screensaver that runs on pc and mac and is used by lots of people around the world. When the screensaver is installed on your system all computers currently displaying the screensaver combine their power to create morphing abstract animations known as "sheep". ]]> This looks cool. That was my first reaction when I saw the generated images at the electricsheep.org website. Electricsheep is a free screensaver that runs on pc and mac and is used by lots of people around the world.

When the screensaver is installed on your system all computers currently displaying the screensaver combine their power to create morphing abstract animations known as “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.

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