Electric Sheep
Jasper Fidget
jasper at hatguild.org
Fri Jul 30 11:43:04 CDT 2004
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf Of Dave Monroe
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 10:08 AM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Electric Sheep
>
> This software owes its name to Philip K. Dick's novel
> Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. It realizes the
> collective dream of sleeping computers from all over
> the internet.
>
> When the screen-saver is activated, the screen goes
> black and an animated 'sheep' appears. Behind the
> scenes, the screen-saver contacts a server and joins
> the parallel computation of new sheep. Every fifteen
> minutes 24/7 a new sheep is born and distributed to
> all clients for display. Each sheep is an animated
> fractal flame.
>
> The Interpretation of Dreams contains an artistic,
> conceptual, and technical explanation, or you can
> watch the streaming video documentary....
>
> http://electricsheep.org/
>
Now if they could only get that Mood Organ working.
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