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Electric Sheep
Display evolving abstract animations while your Windows PC is idle with Electric Sheep, a free, open-source screensaver that shares rendering work over the internet.
Version 3.0.2 · Direct publisher file
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What is Electric Sheep?
Electric Sheep turns an idle computer into a display for collaborative abstract art. Rather than showing a fixed slideshow, the screensaver participates in a network that shares the work of creating morphing animations, called sheep. It suits people who want generative visuals and are comfortable with an internet-connected screensaver.
Viewers can vote for favorite animations with the keyboard. Those preferences influence a genetic algorithm: popular sheep live longer and reproduce through mutation and cross-over. The project also links to flam3 for people who want to design sheep and submit them to the shared gene pool.
The publisher recommends a high-bandwidth, always-on internet connection and warns that server load can delay the first animations. Its desktop instructions identify F2 for monitoring progress and F1 for help while the screensaver is running. Current server operation and compatibility with recent Windows releases have not been established here.
This entry links to the publisher's Windows EXE named electricsheep-3.0.2.exe. Softonic's older listing identifies 2.7b33, so its version date and Windows Vista specification are not presented as requirements for this package. The publisher describes the standard Electric Sheep service as free and open source; its separate HD Gold Sheep and Infinidream offers are not included in that claim.
What it offers
- Display morphing abstract animations as an idle-screen screensaver.
- Participate in the internet-connected network that shares animation-rendering work.
- Vote with the keyboard to influence which animations survive and reproduce.
- Design sheep with the linked flam3 tools and submit them to the gene pool.
- Use the publisher-documented F2 progress display and F1 help while running.
Good to know
- The publisher recommends a high-bandwidth, always-on internet connection and warns that server load can delay animation delivery.
- Exact Windows build requirements, package architecture and current service availability are not established by the available publisher page; Windows 10 or 11 operation has not been tested.
- The gallery image comes from Softonic's older Windows listing and does not establish the appearance or compatibility of the linked 3.0.2 package.
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Sources
References used for this listing. Retrieval dates do not indicate hands-on testing.
- Electric Sheep : Crowdsourced Evolving Art ↗Retrieved
- Electric Sheep - Download ↗Retrieved
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