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StonerView 1.5.0 (Mac)

At the beginning there was ElectroPaint SGI machines. Andrew Plotkin 's StonerView for Macs and Unix was inspired by ElectroPaint. Now StonerView it's also for MacOS X. What's SonerView ? Try it, words or pictures can't explain it well.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, UselessSoft, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-07-11

Rocks 1.0.3 (Mac)

Animation of flying through an asteroid field. Port of the "rocks" linux screensaver module.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Screensaver, UselessSoft, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software

Software downloads 2004-03-12

Hypertorus 1.0.0 (Mac)

Hypertorus - shows the Clifford torus as it rotates in 4d. A quick port from Carsten Steger's xscreensaver module.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Port, Module, UselessSoft, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2003-07-01

Bumps 1.4 (Mac)

Bumps takes the screenshot or an image and exposes small, distorted sections of it as if through an odd wandering spotlight beam. Note that using an image takes a longer initialization time. Do NOT use PDF or EPS file types, they aren't correctly bumped. Please note also that 256 colors...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Screenshot, Image, UselessSoft, Bumps

Software downloads 2003-02-11

Spheremonics 1.0 (Mac)

These closed objects are commonly called spherical harmonics, although they are only remotely related to the mathematical definition found in the solution to certain wave functions, most notable the eigenfunctions of angular momentum operators.Source included.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Momentum, UselessSoft, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2003-01-25

Pedal 1.2 (Mac)

Pedal displays pretty geometric pictures. No OpenGL, if it is slow turn off fade in.

Tags: OpenGL, Apple Macintosh, UselessSoft, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2002-11-15

ifs 1.1.1 (Mac)

Original X11 screensaver was by Massimino Pascal. I "only" ported it to Mac OS X, using OpenGL... pretty close to the original. neat, simple, yet mesmerizing. Someone think that it can dance at the rythm of the music, but it's only a rumor.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, UselessSoft, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2002-11-01

Hopalong 1.1.0 (Mac)

Hopalong it's a fractal screensaver. It generates real plane fractals as described in the September 1986 issue of Scientific American. Original UNIX hopalong by Patrick J. Naughton.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Fractal, UselessSoft

Software downloads 2002-10-15

Flame 1.1 (Mac)

Flame it's yet another fractal screensaver. It draw "weird cosmic fractals". Originally by Scott Graves . It could be considered as the father of ElectricSheep...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Fractal, UselessSoft

Software downloads 2002-08-05

NerveRot 1.1 (Mac)

The goal of NerveRot is to be interesting and compelling to watch, yet induce a state of nervous edginess in the viewer. OpenGL required. Sources included

Tags: OpenGL, Apple Macintosh, UselessSoft, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2002-08-05

Coral 1.1 (Mac)

Just another screensaver. Porting of "coral" module for Linux. Sources included.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Screensaver, Module, UselessSoft, Linux, Desktops, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2002-08-03

FieldLines 1.1 (Mac)

FieldLines is a simulation of the electric field lines between charged particles. Physics never looked so good. Originally by Terence M. Welsh . See http://www.reallyslick.com

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Physics, UselessSoft, FieldLines, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2002-07-09

rd_bomb 1.0 (Mac)

Originally by Scott Draves. The rd_bomb screensaver draws reaction/diffusion textures. The code is derived from the 'd' mode of the "bomb" visual musical instrument (see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spot/bomb.html). I got the equations from xmorphia (http://www.ccsf.caltech.edu/ismap/image.html), which is based on a version of the Gray-Scott model taken from: John E. Pearson "Complex Patterns...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, UselessSoft, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2002-02-02

RocksGL 1.0 (Mac)

Animation of flying through an asteroid field. Port of the "rocks" linux screensaver module. OpenGL required, sources included. Like "rocks" saver, but you can have 2000 stars and still a good frame rate. OpenGL rocks !?!?!

Tags: OpenGL, Apple Macintosh, Screensaver, UselessSoft, Linux, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2002-01-30

LangtonAnts 1.0 (Mac)

LangtonAnts is a cellular automata screensaver. The result is a complex mosaic growing on your screen.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Screensaver, UselessSoft, LangtonAnts, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2001-07-30