electric-kaleidoscope-sheep
These fractal animations, known as Electric Sheep, were created by a screensaver program that harnesses the power of many computers to create abstract art.
The [Electric Sheep website]( http://electricsheep.org/) describes the distributed-computing project:
> Electric Sheep is a collaborative abstract artwork founded 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 Electric Sheep 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*.
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> 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.
The more people who run the Electric Sheep program, the better the animations get. See some of the results in the video gallery above. If you like them, [download the Electric Sheep software](http://community.electricsheep.org/download) and run it on Windows, Mac OSX or Linux.
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Electric 'Kaleidoscope' Sheep
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These Electric Sheep create a kaleidoscope pattern with bursts of color.
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