Scientificscreensavers
Chemical Burn
Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 58
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 58
ChemicalBurn is a screensaver that simulates a transportation network. Packages are generated with a destination, and attempt to find the fastest way there. Frequently used routes get faster, making them more popular. The result is a beautiful self-organizing network colorfully displayed on your screen.
Nodes are randomly generated on the screen. Initially, all connections are equally slow. Packages are generated randomly as the screensaver runs. Each package is generated at a random node, and has another random node set as its destination.
As packages flow through a connection, the connection is strengthened and becomes faster. A disused connection gradually weakens. This is analogous to real-life computer and transportation networks, where the connections with the most traffic get more infrastructure investment and become even faster.
The result is a self-organizing network with complex structure, as popular routes are reinforced with even more traffic, and hubs, rings, and other structures form spontaneously from the simple rules.
If enabled, nodes will be created and destroyed at random during the simulation. When a node is destroyed, it is not immediately removed from the network. Instead the node and its connections turns red, packages are forbidden from using that node in their routes and packages with the destroyed node as their destination are re-routed elsewhere. Once all packages are clear of the destroyed node, it is removed from the screen.
Nodes are randomly generated on the screen. Initially, all connections are equally slow. Packages are generated randomly as the screensaver runs. Each package is generated at a random node, and has another random node set as its destination.
As packages flow through a connection, the connection is strengthened and becomes faster. A disused connection gradually weakens. This is analogous to real-life computer and transportation networks, where the connections with the most traffic get more infrastructure investment and become even faster.
The result is a self-organizing network with complex structure, as popular routes are reinforced with even more traffic, and hubs, rings, and other structures form spontaneously from the simple rules.
If enabled, nodes will be created and destroyed at random during the simulation. When a node is destroyed, it is not immediately removed from the network. Instead the node and its connections turns red, packages are forbidden from using that node in their routes and packages with the destroyed node as their destination are re-routed elsewhere. Once all packages are clear of the destroyed node, it is removed from the screen.
Clocksaver
Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 2.7/5
Total votes: 133
Average user rating: 2.7/5
Total votes: 133
ClockSaver is a port of the Screensaver-module "KClock" found in the KDE Desktop Environment to Mac OS X. It shows a simple but elegant analog clock where you can customize the colors for the clock hands, the color for the clock scale, whether a second hand should be visible, and the size of the displayed clock.
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.
Fieldlines
Our rating: 4/5
Average user rating: 2.7/5
Total votes: 62
Average user rating: 2.7/5
Total votes: 62
FieldLines is a screen saver that simulates the electric field lines emitted by charged particles. In this screen saver, ions move around the screen and bind to the lines of other ions as they get close and unbind as they move away. As the original author has said, physics never looked so good. FieldLines is available in English, French, and Italian.
Flocks
Our rating: 2/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 60
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 60
This is a ScreenSaver Module for Mac OS X. It's a port of the Windows OpenGL ScreenSaver made by Terence M. Welsh.
Foam
Our rating: 2/5
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 71
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 71
Originally designed by Christopher Tate, as a classic MacOS application called bubbles. Circles make tangents with smaller circles until every usable space is filled (reminds me of Silicon Valley).
Fracture
Our rating: 3.5/5
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 50
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 50
Fracture is a screensaver for OS X that creates a wide variety of fractal images. It can render the Mandelbrot Set, Julia Sets, Self-Squared Dragons, and Attraction Basin fractals generated using Newton's Method, Halley's Method, and two other root-finding algorithms. It can make images using advanced fractal imaging techniques like orbit traps, periodicity analysis, and binary decomposition, and it can use several different parameterizations for even greater image variety.
Global Consciousness
Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 61
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 61
Global Consciousness screen saver pulls from the stream of consciousness in real time from the 'Global Consciousness'. Instead of having pre-determined text, this displays the live text feed from our website. You can add to the global consciousness by going to this website.
Huepfer
Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 42
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 42
One more screensaver displaying fractal-like graphics known as Hopper or Hüpfer.
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.
Loops Newton
Our rating: 2.5/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 92
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 92
It's not rocket science but still a bit of physics. Watch it - watch closer. You're eyes getting tired, you feel sleepy... Wake up!
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.
Lunasaver
Our rating: 2.5/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 59
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 59
A simple Screensaver for Mac OS X which displays the current phase of the moon, along with some detailed lunar information.
Riding with Robots
Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 3.9/5
Total votes: 42
Average user rating: 3.9/5
Total votes: 42
A robot armada has been unleashed into the night sky. Its ships are unmanned interplanetary probes that fly faster than you will ever go, and cross distances you can't even imagine. But with nothing more than an Internet connection, you can go with them, catching sights that are as real—and as beautiful—as they are strange.
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.
XScreenSaver
Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 85
Average user rating: 2.9/5
Total votes: 85
XScreenSaver is the standard screen saver collection shipped on most Linux and Unix systems running the X11 Window System
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