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20th Century Voyage
Our rating: 5/5
Average user rating: 3.4/5
Total votes: 96
Average user rating: 3.4/5
Total votes: 96
Buildings and towns are the crystallization of people’s designs. On the contrary, war and terrorism mean the destruction of such crystallized designs. When it was founded, BAUHAUS, which is committed to design, declared the ultimate goal of figurative arts to be "architecture". This word "architecture" is considered to connote the environment. Producing an environment where people can lead a humane life; this is what we consider design to be. Will the coming 100 years become a century of design or of war? How should designers link with society in the new world called the "network"? This is what we need to consider.
3D Matrix
Our rating: 5/5
Average user rating: 2.5/5
Total votes: 171
Average user rating: 2.5/5
Total votes: 171
Attempt to keep your eyeballs in their sockets as you watch this Mac OS X screen saver display the Matrix code swirl on your desktop in mind bending OpenGL API 3D! It can also be set to display the traditional 2D code, as well as heaps of other options.
Aqua Mist
Our rating: 4/5
Average user rating: 2.0/5
Total votes: 168
Average user rating: 2.0/5
Total votes: 168
Hi! My name is Micah Cooksey. I'm a 12 year-old in Japan. The other day, I started playing around with Quartz Composer and decided to try and make a screen saver. The result; Aqua Mist.
Beach
Our rating: 4.5/5
Average user rating: 1.9/5
Total votes: 256
Average user rating: 1.9/5
Total votes: 256
A selection of tropical beach scenery showcased via the Ken Burns Effect.
CosmoSaverX
Our rating: 3.5/5
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 65
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 65
A beautiful screensaver for Mac OS X that lets you view a sharp guality image of solar system! It has same engine that come in your Mac OS X package but it give you in high quality and in small sizes.
Cosmos
Our rating: 4.5/5
Average user rating: 3.3/5
Total votes: 90
Average user rating: 3.3/5
Total votes: 90
A selection of high quality space images showcased via the Ken Burns Effect.
Desktop Aquarium 3D
Our rating: 4.5/5
Average user rating: 4.5/5
Total votes: 74
Average user rating: 4.5/5
Total votes: 74
Watch as your monitor fills with water and real 3D fish begin to swim around the screen you were just working on!
Electric Sheep
Our rating: 4/5
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 109
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 109
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.
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.
Euphoria
Our rating: 5/5
Average user rating: 3.8/5
Total votes: 66
Average user rating: 3.8/5
Total votes: 66
This is a ScreenSaver Module for Mac OS X. It's a port of the Windows OpenGL ScreenSaver made by Terence M. Welsh.
Fading Images
Our rating: 3.5/5
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 66
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 66
FadingImages is a plugin for the Mac OS X screen saver engine that displays the images from a specified folder scattered across your screen and slowly fades them out. It will cycle through all the images before repeating, but since they fade at different rates you will over time end up with different images - and always in different locations and scales.
Fenetres Volantes
Our rating: 4.5/5
Average user rating: 2.7/5
Total votes: 106
Average user rating: 2.7/5
Total votes: 106
You are not using your windows? Fenêtres Volantes make them fly! After some idle time that can be set in the System Preferences, the windows take off the screen and flutter in the void. On a mouse move, the windows immediately come back and stuck to their original position.
Fireflies
Our rating: 3.5/5
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 96
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 96
Port of the OpenGL ScreenSaver made by Matt Perry. This ScreenSaver is displaying swarms of fireflies tracking baits. Source code available.
Flurry
Our rating: 5/5
Average user rating: 4.2/5
Total votes: 72
Average user rating: 4.2/5
Total votes: 72
About 2 years ago, I found some OpenGL code on the internet. I spent a weekend playing around with it, and though that it would be cool to have as a screensaver. I released Flurry 1.0 for free, but asked that users send me a postcard from where they live if they liked it alot.
Flux
Our rating: 4.5/5
Average user rating: 3.4/5
Total votes: 71
Average user rating: 3.4/5
Total votes: 71
This is a ScreenSaver Module for Mac OS X. It's a port of the Windows OpenGL ScreenSaver made by Terence M. Welsh. All the good things in this ScreenSaver are his.
Forest
Our rating: 4.5/5
Average user rating: 3.3/5
Total votes: 73
Average user rating: 3.3/5
Total votes: 73
A selection of forest scenes showcased via the Ken Burns Effect.
Helios
Our rating: 4.5/5
Average user rating: 4.4/5
Total votes: 68
Average user rating: 4.4/5
Total votes: 68
Helios is a particle attraction/repulsion screen saver where "blobs" emit and receive multi-colored particles. It's difficult to describe, but as some have said about the screen saver, it's pretty insane.
Hills
Our rating: 3.5/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 87
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 87
Gently drift over rolling grassy hills, or speed around over a green savanna.
Hyperspace
Our rating: 4.5/5
Average user rating: 4.2/5
Total votes: 84
Average user rating: 4.2/5
Total votes: 84
Hyperspace is a screen saver that sends its users on a virtual trip through a wormhole, just like the ones in some sci-fi TV shows and movies. Meanwhile, nebulas and stars fly by.
Isosurface
Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 65
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 65
Isosurface is an application and screensaver built around an implicit surface polygonizer created by Jules Bloomenthal. The polygonizer converts mathematical functions into a triangle mesh which can be drawn with OpenGL. Isosurface allows you to explore a collection of shapes and surfaces, by rotating them and flying around them.
LED Love
Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 76
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 76
On the stockmarket of society, watch what love and apathy are trading for.
Little Fluffy Cubes
Our rating: 3.5/5
Average user rating: 3.5/5
Total votes: 83
Average user rating: 3.5/5
Total votes: 83
The "Little Fluffy Cubes" screen saver is free software and was coded by Gareth Noyce (aka: Korruptor). It is loosely based on the "Cube Field" demo by Phil Freeman and is my first OS X screen saver. Guess that explains why it's so basic... ;-)
Loops Beach
Our rating: 4.5/5
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 87
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 87
The perfect beach. Waves roll in. In the distance some birds can be heard. It can't get any better than this. I wish I were there.
Loops Fireplace
Our rating: 4.5/5
Average user rating: 3.8/5
Total votes: 78
Average user rating: 3.8/5
Total votes: 78
Warm and cosy, this excellent screensaver brings you a real fireplace without running out of wood. Crackles and pops like the real thing. A must-have!
LotsaGlass
Our rating: 4/5
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 86
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 86
This screensaver displays an animated blob of liquid glass that flows and deforms according to various patterns. It was heavily inspired by Futurismo Zugakousaku's work.
LotsaWater
Our rating: 5/5
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 84
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 84
Renders a fairly realistic water effect over your desktop, showing it distorted through the wavy surface of the water as raindrops fall on the surface. It uses quite a bit of CPU power. There are configuration options to vary the accuracy of the simulation to fit the processing power available.
Marine Aquarium
Our rating: 5/5
Average user rating: 4.5/5
Total votes: 93
Average user rating: 4.5/5
Total votes: 93
You've seen aquarium programs before, but you've never seen anything like this! Marine Life so vibrant you won't believe your eyes. Indescribable realism! Theses fish are actual 3D Models, not flat images dragged accross the screen. This Deluxe version includes 26 different species of fish to choose from. Other features include a starfish, variable lighting, wireframe mode, and more. The 3D fish bend, turn, and swim just like real fish!
Matrix
Our rating: 4/5
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 56
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 56
This MacOS X screensaver is based on xmatrix, the xscreensaver hack. I had xmatrix as my LinuxPPC screensaver for as long as Linux was installed on my machine, and thus when I dumped LinuxPPC for OS X, I wanted to bring xmatrix along with me. So, I lifted the logic and the glyphs from Jamie's code, and marched merrily along with no clue about what I was doing.
Pictures Folder
Our rating: 5/5
Average user rating: 1.9/5
Total votes: 145
Average user rating: 1.9/5
Total votes: 145
Showcase your own photographs, from a folder on your computer, via the Ken Burns Effect.
Plasma Tunnel
Our rating: 4/5
Average user rating: 4.0/5
Total votes: 76
Average user rating: 4.0/5
Total votes: 76
The effect you are about to see was first meant to be the last part of our upcoming demo, but we decided to pull it apart, since it doesn't match the style of the demo anymore. Beside of this it was the result of a boring, rainy sunday here in germany, and can not be considered as something special... but anyways hopefully more special than this ported savers floating around [something to kick your peecee pals asses].
RSS Visualizer
Our rating: 4.5/5
Average user rating: 4.4/5
Total votes: 96
Average user rating: 4.4/5
Total votes: 96
View news headlines via an RSS feed, displayed on your screen using the beauty of OpenGL.
RedPill
Our rating: 5/5
Average user rating: 4.3/5
Total votes: 76
Average user rating: 4.3/5
Total votes: 76
Red Pill is a free screensaver for Mac OS X. It displays strips of green alien code which slowly draw themselves on the screen as they sweep towards you in 3D. It may bear a certain resemblance to graphics seen in a popular Sci-Fi movie sequel being released in May 2003.
SETI@home
Our rating: 3.5/5
Average user rating: 3.3/5
Total votes: 56
Average user rating: 3.3/5
Total votes: 56
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as radio SETI, uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. Such signals are not known to occur naturally, so a detection would provide evidence of extraterrestrial technology.
Radio telescope signals consist primarily of noise (from celestial sources and the receiver's electronics) and man-made signals such as TV stations, radar, and satellites. Modern radio SETI projects analyze the data digitally. More computing power enables searches to cover greater frequency ranges with more sensitivity. Radio SETI, therefore, has an insatiable appetite for computing power.
Previous radio SETI projects have used special-purpose supercomputers, located at the telescope, to do the bulk of the data analysis. In 1995, David Gedye proposed doing radio SETI using a virtual supercomputer composed of large numbers of Internet-connected computers, and he organized the SETI@home project to explore this idea. SETI@home was originally launched in May 1999.
Skyrocket
Our rating: 5/5
Average user rating: 4.6/5
Total votes: 101
Average user rating: 4.6/5
Total votes: 101
There's fireworks screen savers, and then there's Skyrocket. Technology has come a long way since the days of the Pyro! screen saver, and Skyrocket shows how far we've come by rendering fireworks in 3D. Oh, and it also has sound effects to go with the fireworks. And unlike some other fireworks screen savers, this one won't change your screen's resolution.
SolarWinds
Our rating: 5/5
Average user rating: 4.7/5
Total votes: 77
Average user rating: 4.7/5
Total votes: 77
This is a ScreenSaver Module for Mac OS X. It's a port of the Windows OpenGL ScreenSaver made by Terence M. Welsh.
Space Wars
Our rating: 4.5/5
Average user rating: 3.3/5
Total votes: 63
Average user rating: 3.3/5
Total votes: 63
Space ships do battle in a dogfight in deep space! Ships chase their enemies, but avoid firing on their comrades. Ships take damage and explode into pieces. Some ships have shields, which absorb damage until they're depleted. Motherships patrol the area as well as small star fighters. Additional space ships available for download to add to the full version.
Sparkly
Our rating: 4/5
Average user rating: 3.4/5
Total votes: 128
Average user rating: 3.4/5
Total votes: 128
The best way to describe this one is as a glowing ball emitting a shower of colorful sparks as it travels randomly across the screen — kind of like a pixie! It’s actually entertaining to watch.
Virtual Fireworx
Our rating: 3.5/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 79
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 79
All year long, any holiday or occasion, Virtual FireworX brings a festive mood to your Mac! These pyro-tastic delights burn cool, so they won't burn you, or your screen! Virtual FireworX are realtime 3D particle animations of fireworks simulations. Thanks to new technology available to MacOS X 10.4, a.k.a., "Tiger", Virtual FireworX performs better than it's predecessor, Digital FireworX. Because the fireworks render in realtime, they truly vary from each viewing, randomly igniting in new locations in 3D space!
Void
Our rating: 3.5/5
Average user rating: 3.6/5
Total votes: 79
Average user rating: 3.6/5
Total votes: 79
Enjoy five (Dropdown, Circles, Spin, Fall in, Reptiles) screen animations with our screensaver Void. It takes the screen and plays with it a little.
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