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3D Matrix

Our rating: 5/5
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.

After Dark

Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 2.2/5
Total votes: 74

After Dark™ is the best-selling screen saver that has delighted Macintosh users worldwide since 1989, best known for the famous Flying Toasters. "After Dark X + Fish" adds the popular "Fish", "Mowing Man" and "Mandelbrot" modules to the existing "Space Toasters", "Starry Night" and other user favorites. More than just a screensaver, "After Dark X + Fish" offers hours of entertainment for all Macintosh users.

Aqua Mist

Our rating: 4/5
Average user rating: 2.2/5
Total votes: 148

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.

CosmoSaverX

Our rating: 3.5/5
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

A selection of high quality space images showcased via the Ken Burns Effect.

Electric Sheep

Our rating: 4/5
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.

Euphoria

Our rating: 5/5
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.

Fieldlines

Our rating: 4/5
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.

Fireflies

Our rating: 3.5/5
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.

Flux

Our rating: 4.5/5
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.

Fracture

Our rating: 3.5/5
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.

Helios

Our rating: 4.5/5
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.

Hyperspace

Our rating: 4.5/5
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.

LED Love

Our rating: 3/5
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

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... ;-)

LotsaGlass

Our rating: 4/5
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.

Matrix

Our rating: 4/5
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.

Matrix Reloaded GL

Our rating: 4/5
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 48

This is a ScreenSaver Module for Mac OS X. It's a port of the Windows/Linux OpenGL ScreenSaver made by Alex Zolotov.

Osirus

Our rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 1.5/5
Total votes: 66

The first in a series of screen savers brought to you by töshöklabs. Osirus generates hypnotic circular patterns, which randomly forms various disc shaped imagery. Controls are provided for different color schemes, the speed, transparency, refresh rate, line thickness, motion, fade, and full screen options.

Ouroboros

Our rating: 1/5
Average user rating: 1.2/5
Total votes: 58

This is a Mac OS X screen saver featuring a 360 degree rotating Ouroboros.

Plasma Tunnel

Our rating: 4/5
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].

RedPill

Our rating: 5/5
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.

Riding with Robots

Our rating: 3/5
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

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.

Security

Our rating: 2.5/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 82

What is this shape, and why has it been locked away? It sure looks angry. (responds to audio)

SolarWinds

Our rating: 5/5
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

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.

SpaceTime

Our rating: 2.5/5
Average user rating: 3.1/5
Total votes: 70

SpaceTime Screensaver for OS X demonstrates a 3D animated warp speed effect and star field skymap. This is Free Software with complete XCode v2.4 sources available via the download page.

Sparkly

Our rating: 4/5
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.

StarWarsScroll

Our rating: 2.5/5
Average user rating: 3.4/5
Total votes: 47

From a galaxy far, far away, Killer Robots Games is proud to present StarWarsScroll. StarWarsScroll is a screen saver which accurately recreates the opening titles of each of the six Star Wars movies. Can't find your Star Wars DVDs? Relive the experience through StarWarsScroll.

Tripout

Our rating: 3.5/5
Average user rating: 3.0/5
Total votes: 57

Tripout is an OpenGL Texture effects screensaver. Tripout doesn't behave nicely on multiple monitors yet.

Void

Our rating: 3.5/5
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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