electric sheep // canavarlar

screenasaver electric sheep online computers sleeping counting

http://www.electricsheep.org/

Electric Sheep is a
free, open source
screen saver run by
thousands of people
all over the world.
It 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.