Look Up: 100 Year Starship Screensaver

roberthodgin.com

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Just for some context here, Robert Hodgin is a graphics programmer/artist who does really cool work under the name fight404. You've seen his work as magnetosphere which is now the default iTunes visualizer.

http://roberthodgin.com/magnetosphere-itunes-visualizer/

What I'm missing is information about what OS(es) this one will run at. I really like good (or amusing) screensavers, even if they've grown out of fashion in favor of energy savings on laptops and the like. I still troll people with the BSOD screensaver in Ubuntu (although you have to manually install / setup xscreensaver nowadays, again due to energy efficiency)

I find "xrandr -o inverted" to be a much better method of impressing the advantages of locking your laptop when you're away.

Mac / Windows downloads only, but here's some tips from WINEHQ about running your favorite visual hallucinogens on Linux: http://wiki.winehq.org/ScreenSavers

(*Note: I could not get this one to work in wine, crashes right away..)

I know this is really nit-picky, but I don't like that they changed the scale of things to get it to look right. That means that if one were to take the journey to the star, it wouldn't look like the screensaver, which to me defeats the stated purpose of the screensaver.

Of course it's still really beautiful, and I'm sure they did a better job than if I were to create something similar.

This looks absolutely wonderful. Now can anyone get the download/donate page to load?

http://100yss.org/donate

Site's down for me too, but on the Google cached version I found the donation link and the download info got quickly emailed back to me automatically despite the error message after checkout: http://100yss.fetchapp.com/sell/eireeghu

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