After School Special Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 So this is prolly the coolest thing I've seen my computer do yet. (Besides free pr0n of course...) 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. http://sheepserver.net/v2d6/gen/202/5027/00202=05027=05027=05027.mpg http://sheepserver.net/v2d6/gen/202/4921/00202=04921=04921=04921.mpg http://sheepserver.net/v2d6/gen/202/4750/00202=04750=04750=04750.mpg If you google "Electric Sheep Torrents" you can find 100s of new sheep. Leave the screen saver running over night and it will download new breeds depending on what sheep were voted for previously. The link below shows how previous sheep have grown. http://electricsheep.org/archive/generation-165/best.cgi?menu=tree&p=4 Electric Sheep realizes the collective dream of sleeping computers from all over the internet. It's a distributed screen-saver that harnesses idle computers into a render farm with the purpose of animating and evolving artificial life-forms. All the software is open source and users may participate in the network freely and anonymously. Anyone can download and install it. When their computer is idle and goes to sleep, the sheep animations appear, and in parallel the computer goes to work creating new sheep and sharing its results with all other users. Each sheep is about 4 seconds long. Its shape, motion, and color are specified by a genetic code, a long string of numbers. If a user sees a sheep they like, they may press the up arrow key to vote for it. Sheep that receive more votes live longer and are more likely to reproduce. These votes form a fitness function for the esthetic evolution of the flock. Users can also download software to manually design genomes and post them to the server where they join the flock. I believe the free flow of code is an increasingly important social and artistic force. The proliferation of powerful computers with high-bandwidth network connections forms the substrate of an expanding universe. The electric sheep and we their shepherds are colonizing this new frontier. Download and learn more at http://electricsheep.org/ Enjoy =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gat Bush Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 will it steal my porno? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willy.wonka Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 LETS HOPE NOT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAR Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 how long did it take for your first sheep to download? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
After School Special Posted April 9, 2006 Author Share Posted April 9, 2006 I let it go for almost 7 hours and thought "fuck it" it doesnt work on my computer. I came back later and it was working =) You just have to be patient. Or, download the torrents =D I usually let it run at night and it downloads a few more, these torrent files are killer though. Here is a list of flock 202 http://electricsheep.claytondevelopment.com/202/ It's fucking huge, you need to put the new mpgs in your Electric Sheep cache folder. Or, if you are patient, the 1st sheep will download within a day and mutate from there. good luck =) I'll try back later with a torrent link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishCarBombs Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 so shall i take xtc and watch it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuse=--action Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 so shall i take xtc and watch it Something hallucinigenic would be better probably. -fuse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeBee Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 Acid trip steez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poing Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 this is mad homo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuse=--action Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 I'm having a little trouble connecting to a sheep server. Goddamn linux command line bullshit ticks me off sometimes. -fuse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
After School Special Posted April 9, 2006 Author Share Posted April 9, 2006 this is mad homo. Word homie, keep it gangsta.:shakehead: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Jefe Uno Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 this stuff is crazy lookin, might have to start a download Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Quickwood Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 i'm gonna check it, i hope there's no compootor trickery behind this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
After School Special Posted April 10, 2006 Author Share Posted April 10, 2006 If you cant get sheep to dl let me know. I'll look harder for the torrents... Shit is impossible for me to find for some reason. It should stay on the "Please wait while the first sheep is downloaded" for a long time. But eventually shit will get rolling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudebra1 Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 It only took an hour or two for my computer to download the first sheep. That shit is pretty fucking cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAR Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 I GOT MY FIRST SHEEP!!! ITS SUPER SWEET! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gat Bush Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 im waiting on mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
After School Special Posted April 10, 2006 Author Share Posted April 10, 2006 Vote for or against sheep with the up/down keys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 how can you vote on it with the kyboard, when hitting keys will wake your computer back up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
After School Special Posted April 10, 2006 Author Share Posted April 10, 2006 Not the up and down keys for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 weird. did you see that i unbanned your other name? and if you get a hold of diggity, he'll work with you to sort out your old name. (even though you made a fake name to call me gay). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
After School Special Posted April 10, 2006 Author Share Posted April 10, 2006 lol I was just playing anyways haha... I don't need the other one. Thanks though. Who do I contact about the old name? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr430n5_666 Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
estaked Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 this stuff looks crazy i will check it out thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 diggity@12ozprophet.com give him your old screen name, your old email address, your new email address and your new screen name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shitting Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 I knew you could forgive... hmm i don't know if a could be bothered getting one of these sheep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
estaked Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 its kinda crazy i got 2 downloaded already if you want it to dl whille your comp is on just have your "display propeties up while your using your comp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
After School Special Posted April 10, 2006 Author Share Posted April 10, 2006 Excelent. I also found an option to increase cache size. I upped mine to 5000 mbs as to not lose sheep already loaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuse=--action Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 Mine still won't connect to the server. Someone tell me what server they are connecting to please? Also, if there is a port that I need to open on my router, that would be helpful too. -fuse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shitting Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 why do you sign off every post? its giving me the shits already Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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