The sheep motif is carried over into other aspects of the project: the 100 or so sheep stored on the server at any time is referred to as 'the flock' creating a new fractal by interpolating or combining the sheep's fractal code with that of another sheep is called mating/breeding changes to the code are called mutations, etc. The title mirrors the nature of the project: computers (androids) who have started running the screensaver begin rendering (dreaming) the fractal movies (sheep). Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. The name "Electric Sheep" is taken from the title of Philip K. As the screensaver entertains the user, their computer is also used for rendering commercial projects, sales of which keep the servers and developers running.Īccording to Mitchell Whitelaw in his Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life, "On the screen they are luminous, twisting, elastic shapes, abstract tangles and loops of glowing filaments." Alternatively, the user may become more involved with the project, manually creating a fractal flame file for upload to the server where it is rendered into a video file of the animated fractal flame.
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The process is transparent to the casual user, who can simply install the software as a screensaver. Electric Sheep is a distributed computing project for animating and evolving fractal flames, which are in turn distributed to the networked computers, which display them as a screensaver.
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