The title mirrors the nature of the project: computers (androids) who have started running the screensaver begin rendering (dreaming) the fractal movies ( sheep). Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. The name "Electric Sheep" is taken from the title of Philip K. Īccording to Mitchell Whitelaw in his Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life, "On the screen they are luminous, twisting, elastic shapes, abstract tangles and loops of glowing filaments." There are about 500,000 active users (monthly uniques). As the screensaver entertains the user, their computer is also used for rendering commercial projects, sales of which keep the servers and developers running. Alternatively, the user may become more involved with the project, manually creating a fractal flame file for upload to the server where it is rendered into a video file of the animated fractal flame.
ELECTRIC SHEEP FACTORY INSTALL
The process is transparent to the casual user, who can simply install the software as a screensaver. Electric Sheep is a volunteer computing project for animating and evolving fractal flames, which are in turn distributed to the networked computers, which display them as a screensaver.
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