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DeskTop!
Get Desktop Wallpapers, Screensavers, Icons, Tips, News or just Software – right from your Mac OS X Dashboard.
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Secret Wallpapers
They’re hidden inside the four equally attractive new screen savers and feature some truly stunning scenery from National Geographic, the Hubble Space telescope, and some amazing photographers.
Here’s how to access these on your Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion:
- From the OS X Finder, hit Command+Shift+G to summon Go To Folder and enter the following path exactly:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.Framework/Versions/A/Resources/Default Collections/
- Copy the four well-labeled directories “1-National Geographic”, “2-Aerial”, “3-Cosmos”, “4-Nature Patterns” to the Desktop or elsewhere for easy access to the high res images
- Each image is a whopping 3200×2000 resolution
- Set them as your wallpaper and enjoy
You will find a handful that are also in the default OS X Mountain Lion wallpaper collection, but the vast majority are totally new
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iLife
Get iLife, GarageBand, iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD and iWeb Tips, Tricks or Support right in to your Mac OS X Dashboard.
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Apple Wallpapers
1. Groovy Mac
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6. Got Mac?
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7. Mac Dragon
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10. iGolf
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12. Golden Apple
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13. Fiery Passion
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15. MAC in Leather
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17. (Mac) Wallpaper
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22. Apple Wallpaper
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24. Leopard “Conquer the Universe” BG
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26. Apple Splash Wallpaper Pack
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27. Apple Leopard Wallpaper 2Pack
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28. Mac-Bar
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29. Apple CMYK
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30. Mac is beautiful purple wallpa
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31. Ink Apple
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36. Apple 2007
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37. Stars and Apple Desktop Wallpaper
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40. Think Different
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41. Hardwood Lights
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42. Mac Wallpaper
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43. City Mac
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44. SpectDark
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45. Red Appwall
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46. bleeding through
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47. iPulse Green Mod
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48. Finding Apple
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49. Apple Logo Splash Wallpaper
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50. I Love Mac
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51. Blu Apple
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53. Classic Apple
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54. Sour Apple
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57. Splashed Apple
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58. Apple – white
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59. Apple Live
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60. A Greener Apple
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61. Apple Wall 4
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62. Apple Satin
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64. Mac Vines
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65. Apple tagg
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66. Apple Mac
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68. Apple OldBox HD
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69. Apple
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OS X 10.9 Mavericks Wallpaper
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iDevices
- - iPhone 5
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Chilled Out Wallpaper
Tree Widescreen Wallpaper
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Planet Football Wallpaper
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Memories Wallpaper
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Stand Out
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NKTR Wallpaper
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The Road to your Destiny
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Chillstate
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Morning Glory Wallpaper
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Desert drink
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Little Home
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Psychedelic Fields
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SERENE – Wallpaper Pack
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no place like london
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Windows Dock Sunset
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Memories
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New Mexico Part II
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Garden of bliss
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vintage
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Windows Vista Wallpaper Manip
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Heavens Path
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Moon + Sky
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In the Star Night
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My Last Step
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Perfect Sky
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Let it rain
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Abstract Wallpapers
ARTcast
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The Transmission
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Cubist Sky to Nature
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Abstract Rose Stand
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Boxs
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2013
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Just Bokeh
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Stunning Abstract
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Tempus Fugit
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Fear of the Dark
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Out in Space
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Mother Earth
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Between Heaven and Earth
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Gaia
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Beauty of the Universe
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Gazing into the Abyss
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Pandora’S Box
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Dubstep
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Iluzion Natyror
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Platform
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The Morning Star
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Nice Colourful Abstract
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Nameless Liberty
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Kitsch Me If You Can
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Dock of Sound
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Under The Sea
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Desktopo
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Curl Rainbow
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A Kings Demise
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ARTcast
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High Res Wallpapers
New York Rush
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The Stare
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The Garden of Eden
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FlashFire
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The Birth of Europa
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Grazing Galaxies
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Jincy
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The end of pandora
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Horsehead Nebula
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Car
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Survivor
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Shroom
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Dual Wallpaper
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La Tour Eiffel
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Dark Knight
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Leaves
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Landscapes
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Three Brother Wolves
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Mano
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Yellow Rose
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Crashing Waves at Sunset
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Lighthouse
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Edgewood Farm
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Veni Vidi Venice
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Mountains
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CG Art
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Apple iPad
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Water Colored
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Calypso
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Mountain
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City Aerial View
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Old Stone
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Placid
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Stratosphere
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Azure Eye
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Bergs
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Cherry Flowers
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Cologne in Flames
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Castle of Decay
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Double Trouble
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Sebastopol Lagoon
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Camp Meeker Waterfall
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Stand Alone
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Racoon
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Black Beauty
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Blue Forest
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Moss
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Blue Moon
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Little World
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Turtle
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Another World
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The Edge II
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Landscape
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Fireworks
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Launch
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Bamboo
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Penthouse View
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Green Simplicity
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Solanum
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Butterfly Dual Effekt
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Lizard
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Space Wallpapers
A New Dawn
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Terra Nova
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Origin
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Aeon
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Cosmic Daylight Close Up
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The Last Sunrise
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Detritus
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Cosmic Sunrise
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Sunrise in Space
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Omicron Beta
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Smooth Vision
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Remnants
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Departures
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Eastern Sunrise Updated
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Planet One
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Tau 31
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Last Dawn
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Misconstrue Image
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Homeworld
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Morning
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Wallpapers
Get the best Wallpapers right from your Mac OS X Dashboard.
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Screensavers
MovingPhotos 3D
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MovingPhotos 3D
This saver arranges your photos to form 3D constructions, such as a city block with buildings.
Analogy
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Analogy Screensaver
Analogy is a typographic clock which fuses the immediacy of digital with the visual-spatial quality of analogue into a hybrid format.
Time Machine Screensaver
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Time Machine
A time machine-like animation that loads as a screensaver. Choose between normal or RSS version.
HAL 9000
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HAL Screensaver
John Gruber: Gorgeous homage to HAL by Joe Mackenzie. I haven’t used a screensaver on my computer in at least 10 years, but I’m running one now.
Euphoria
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Euphoria Screensaver
A port of the Windows OpenGL ScreenSaver made by Terence M. Welsh, full of abstract colors and shapes.
Econ
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Econ Screensaver
The screensaver that uses your icons, flying through them in high quality icon bliss. It automatically gathers them from your /Applications folder.
Fenêtres Volantes
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Fenêtres Volantes Screensaver
Taking your open applications and catapulting them around the screen in a really great effect.
Plasma Tunnel
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Plasma Tunnel Screensaver
A swirling vortex of screensaver delight.
Red Baron
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Red Baron Screensaver
Fly behind a classic bi-plane as it soars across idyllic scenery.
Hyperspace
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HyperSpace Screensaver
Hyperspace is a screen saver that sends its users on a virtual trip through a wormhole, just like the ones in some sci-fi TV shows and movies.
Digg Stack
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Digg Stack
Digg Stack shows diggs occurring in real time on up to 100 stories at once. Diggers fall from above and stack up on popular stories. Brightly colored stories have more Diggs.
Shuffle Saver
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ShuffleSaver
Loads your favorite photos from flickr.com or iPhoto and shuffles them. You get new photos everytime the screensaver starts.
Alien Sun Clock
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Alien Sun Clock Screensaver
Alien Sun Clock Screensaver lets you look at the usual things in a surprisingly new way with a warm, radiant clock.
Solar Winds
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Solar Winds
This is a very mesmerizing particle effects saver. Tweak the settings a little and you’ll find that you can achieve an amazing number of different patterns.
Lotsa Water
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LotsaWater Screensaver
This screensaver renders a fairly realistic water effect over your desktop, showing it distorted through the wavy surface of the water as raindrops fall on the surface.
Digg Arc
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Digg Arc Screensaver
Digg Arc displays stories, topics, and containers wrapped around a sphere. Arcs trail people as they Digg stories across topics. Stories with more Diggs make thicker arcs.
AlphaBaby
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AlphaBaby Screensaver
A great screensaver for kids, displaying letters, numbers, shapes and sounds as you interact with the mouse and keyboard.
National Geographic
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National Geographic Screensaver
National Geographic, the standard bearer for quality images delivers with this screensaver. A spectacular slideshow of pictures from around the world.
Artecnica Clock
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Artecnica Clock
A funky timepiece with a variety of different number styles and graphics.
Dashsaver
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Dashsaver
When the computer is inactive after the specified time as set in the Screen Saver preference pane, the dashboard is displayed and the users’ desktop is hidden
Flux
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Flux Screensaver
Dancing, pulsing, colorful and beautiful.
Holding Pattern Coach Class
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Holding Pattern Coach Class
Free version with 15 aerial views – a great way to try out screen saver cinema.
SoundStream
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SoundStream Screensaver
Soundstream is a Mac OS X screensaver that responds to sound input. Colorful Flurry-like streams pulse to the beat of music or bloom with ambient noise.
ScriptSaver
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ScriptSaver
ScriptSaver is a Mac OS X screensaver which runs AppleScripts when it activates and deactivates. Great for performing maintenance, or updating iChat status when the computer is idle.
Save Hollywood
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Save Hollywood
This screensaver allows you to display QuickTime Movies as a screensaver. Useful for taking a little time out.
Fireflies
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Fireflies Screensaver
Possible a little more dramatic than a real-life firefly, but still cool.
Matrix Reloaded
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Matrix Reloaded Screensaver
No one can claim that they don’t feel a little bit cool with a Matrix screensaver. Go on – try it out…
Skyrocket
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SkyRocket Screensaver
A gorgeous firework screensaver, rending in 3D with realistic graphics and sound.
Under The Sea 3D
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Imax Under The Sea
A delightful, high quality, look at life under the sea. Typical IMAX delight!
LotsaEscher
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Lotsa Escher Screesaver
This is a screensaver which displays an animated version of M.C. Escher’s Print Gallery drawing. Great for art fans!
Snowfall
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Snowfall Screensaver
We’re still a long way off Christmas, but it’s worth downloading to have handy when December comes around…
Surveillance Saver
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Surveillance Saver
SurveillanceSaver is a simple screen saver that displays more than 1000 surveillance cameras worldwide.
Helios
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Helios Screensaver
Helios is a particle attraction/repulsion screen saver where “blobs” emit and receive multi-colored particles. It’s difficult to describe, but as some have said about the screen saver, it’s pretty insane.
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Presstube Screensaver
Fast paced and unusual, with a random array of sketches and drawings being quickly drafted on your screen.
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Website as Screen Saver
WebSaver is simple in concept: it allows you to set a series of websites as your screen saver. You need only enter a few URLs and it will automatically load a fullscreen page and cycle between your various sites.
Today we’ll look at how to set it up, what some of the various options are and our ultimate impressions regarding the software.
Setting Up
Once you download WebSaver, simply double click the screen saver file to install it. Then open up “Desktop and Screen Saver” inside System Preferences.
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WebSaver Preference Pane
From here you can access all your screen savers and their respective settings, just make sure you have the “Screen Saver” tab selected, not the “Desktop” tab.
Under the “Other” heading on the far left, select the WebSaver screen saver. A preview should pop up in that little window of the screen saver with its default settings. Click on “Options” to customize these settings.
Adding Sites
After you click the settings button, you’ll be given the window below. Here you can add and remove sites, activate and deactivate sites, and set every site’s time interval.
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Adding Sites to WebSaver
To add a new site to your screen saver, simply paste the URL into the field on the bottom of the window and hit the little plus button. Likewise, to remove a site, just select it from the list and hit the minus button.
The little checkboxes next to the list of sites allow you to turn sites on and off. This is a nice feature because you can keep a large list of sites handy without being forced to have them all activated at once.
To set the time interval of a given site, click the text under the “Duration” column on the right. You can choose from a number of option ranging from ten seconds to ten minutes.
Once you have some sites queued, click “Test” to see the screen saver in action. It should automatically load your pages and set the to a fullscreen view.
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Settings
Click on the “Settings” button at the top of the window to tweak the functionality of WebSaver. Here you can control the brightness at which sites display, disable processor taxing functions like JavaScript and Flash, enable caching for speedier site loading, activate speech (reads sites to you), and set the default font options.
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You can also set it so that when a Youtube or Vimeo video is called up, it will automatically display the fullscreen player. All of these settings seemed to function just fine. I especially like that you can control the font size and dim websites to be a bit easier on your screen and eyes.
Web List
Just in case you can’t think of any sites to include, the developers have created a list of suggestions. There are various categories to choose from for videos, magazines, etc. All you have to do is find a site that looks interesting and click the”>[/caption]
It’s really helpful that they’ve included some suggestions, but what I would’ve like to see here is something a little more automated. For instance, under the most popular Youtube videos, you can add specific Youtube videos to play every time the screen saver loads. However, it would be nice to be able to just tell WebSaver to load something random from Youtube’s current most popular list every time the screen saver starts.
Does It Work?
For the most part, WebSaver does exactly what the developer says it does. It’s a great idea and really opens up your choices for custom screen savers. Suddenly anything and everything you find on the web can become your new screensaver! I definitely enjoyed playing with the software and will continue to use it. If you’re always on the lookout for a cool new screen saver, I think WebSaver is well worth the $5.
The one thing that I couldn’t get to work was the auto-login feature. The developer claims that if you simply sign onto services like Facebook, Twitter and Gmail in Safari, you’ll be logged in for WebSaver as well. However, I simply didn’t find this to be true (maybe it doesn’t work with Safari 5?).
As a work around, I found that you can actually login straight from the screen saver. Just use your keyboard to tab to the appropriate field and type in your username and password. If you touch the mouse, the screen saver will quit but the keyboard doesn’t seem to have the same effect.
What’s Missing?
WebSaver is fairly basic at the moment but the developers promise that new features are on the way. Here’s my list of features that I feel should be added before the app can really feel nice and polished.
Transitions
Right now the sites abruptly change from one to the next. It would be nice to have a few options for fades and swipes to make the switch more attractive.
Auto-Scrolling
Unfortunately, you’re stuck looking at the top of whatever website you’re on. Implementing an adjustable auto-scroll would increase the functionality by allowing you to see the entire page.
RSS Integration
Currently, if you add an RSS feed to WebSaver, it will quit the screen saver and open the feed in Safari. Many RSS feeds are constantly updating and therefore feel like a perfect fit for WebSaver, especially if they were used in conjunction with the auto-scroll suggestion above!
List Reorder
You can either let the websites load in the order you entered them or set them to load in a random order. However, there’s no way to manually reorder your list without deleting and re-entering sites.
Allow Mouse Behavior
This one is arguable but I can see a need for allowing mouse behavior without killing the screen saver. There could be an optional setting that allows both keyboard and mouse input and will only deactivate the screen saver if you press the “esc” key. This would let you scroll, login easier, and interact with some sites if you want to. Granted, the idea of a screen saver is something that pops up when you’re not using the computer but I still think it’s a valid feature idea.
Get it Free!
You can currently download and use WebSaver for as long as you want without paying a cent, you’ll just be limited to four websites and the settings tab will be disabled.
You can also check out another completely free version here. This one limits you to one site at a time but can use your MacBook’s motion sensor to navigate the page (a really bizarre feature).
Conclusion
To sum up, WebSaver is an easy and extremely affordable way to display multiple websites and videos as a screen saver on your Mac. You can create and manage a list of sites and customize various settings such as font size and brightness.
WebSaver works fairly well but needs keychain integration to handle logins and could use a more robust feature set overall.
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XScreenSaver
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XScreenSaver is the standard screen saver collection shipped on most Linux and Unix systems running the X11 Window System. I released the first version in 1992. I ported it to MacOS X in 2006, and to iOS in 2012.
On X11 systems, XScreenSaver is two things: it is both a large collection of screen savers; and it is also the framework for blanking and locking the screen.
On MacOS systems, these screen savers work with the usual MacOS screen saving framework (X11 is not required).
On iOS devices, it is an application that lets you run each of the demo modes manually.
These are the screen savers currently included in the XScreenSaver distribution:
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Abstractile
Generates mosaic patterns of interlocking tiles.Written by Steve Sundstrom; 2004.
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Anemone
Wiggling tentacles.Written by Gabriel Finch; 2002.
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Anemotaxis
This demonstrates a search algorithm designed for locating a source of odor in turbulent atmosphere. The searcher is able to sense the odor and determine local instantaneous wind direction. The goal is to find the source in the shortest mean time.Wikipedia: “Anemotaxis”
Written by Eugene Balkovsky; 2004.
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AntInspect
Draws a trio of ants moving their spheres around a circle.Written by Blair Tennessy; 2004.
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AntMaze
Draws a few views of a few ants walking around in a simple maze.Written by Blair Tennessy; 2005.
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AntSpotlight
Draws an ant (with a headlight) who walks around on top of a loaded image.Written by Blair Tennessy; 2003.
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Apollonian
Draws an Apollonian gasket: a fractal packing of circles with smaller circles, demonstrating Descartes’s theorem.Wikipedia: “Apollonian gasket”
Wikipedia: “Descartes’ theorem”
Written by Allan R. Wilks and David Bagley; 2002.
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Apple2
Simulates an original Apple ][ Plus computer in all its 1979 glory. It also reproduces the appearance of display on a color television set of the period.In "Basic Programming Mode", a simulated user types in a BASIC program and runs it. In "Text Mode", it displays the output of a program, or the contents of a file or URL. In "Slideshow Mode", it chooses random images and displays them within the limitations of the Apple ][ display hardware. (Six available colors in hi-res mode!)
On MacOS and Linux, this program is also a fully-functional VT100 emulator! Run it as an application instead of as a screen saver and you can use it as a terminal.
Written by Trevor Blackwell; 2003.
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Atlantis
A 3D animation of a number of sharks, dolphins, and whales.Written by Mark Kilgard; 1998.
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Attraction
Points attract each other up to a certain distance, and then begin to repel each other. The attraction/repulsion is proportional to the distance between any two particles, similar to the strong and weak nuclear forces.Written by Jamie Zawinski and John Pezaris; 1992.
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Atunnel
Zooming through a textured tunnel.Written by Eric Lassauge and Roman Podobedov; 2003.
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Barcode
Draws a random sequence of colorful barcodes scrolling across your screen. CONSUME!The barcodes follow the UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8 or EAN-13 standards.
Wikipedia: "Universal Product Code"
Wikipedia: "European Article Number"
Written by Dan Bornstein; 2003.
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Blaster
Draws a simulation of flying space-combat robots (cleverly disguised as colored circles) doing battle in front of a moving star field.Written by Jonathan Lin; 1999.
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BlinkBox
A motion-blurred ball bounces inside a box whose tiles only become visible upon impact.Written by Jeremy English; 2003.
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BlitSpin
Repeatedly rotates a bitmap by 90 degrees by using logical operations: the bitmap is divided into quadrants, and the quadrants are shifted clockwise. Then the same thing is done again with progressively smaller quadrants, except that all sub-quadrants of a given size are rotated in parallel. As you watch it, the image appears to dissolve into static and then reconstitute itself, but rotated.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1992.
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BlockTube
Draws a swirling, falling tunnel of reflective slabs. They fade from hue to hue.Written by Lars R. Damerow; 2003.
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Boing
This bouncing ball is a clone of the first graphics demo for the Amiga 1000, which was written by Dale Luck and RJ Mical during a break at the 1984 Consumer Electronics Show (or so the legend goes.)This looks like the original Amiga demo if you turn off "smoothing" and "lighting" and turn on "scanlines", and is somewhat more modern otherwise.
Wikipedia: "Amiga: Boing Ball"
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2005.
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Bouboule
This draws what looks like a spinning, deforming balloon with varying-sized spots painted on its invisible surface.Written by Jeremie Petit; 1997.
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BouncingCow
A Cow. A Trampoline. Together, they fight crime.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2003.
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Boxed
Draws a box full of 3D bouncing balls that explode.Written by Sander van Grieken; 2002.
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BoxFit
Packs the screen with growing squares or circles, colored according to a horizontal or vertical gradient, or according to the colors of a loaded image. The objects grow until they touch, then stop. When the screen is full, they shrink away and the process restarts.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2005.
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Braid
Draws random color-cycling inter-braided concentric circles.Written by John Neil; 1997.
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BSOD
BSOD stands for "Blue Screen of Death". The finest in personal computer emulation, BSOD simulates popular screen savers from a number of less robust operating systems.Wikipedia: "Blue Screen of Death"
Wikipedia: "Screen of death"
Wikipedia: "Guru Meditation"
Wikipedia: "Row of Bombs"
Wikipedia: "Bomb"
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1998.
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Bubble3D
Draws a stream of rising, undulating 3D bubbles, rising toward the top of the screen, with transparency and specular reflections.Written by Richard Jones; 1998.
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Bumps
A spotlight roams across an embossed version of a loaded image.Written by Shane Smit; 1999.
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Cage
This draws Escher's "Impossible Cage", a 3d analog of a möbius strip, and rotates it in three dimensions.Wikipedia: "Maurits Cornelis Escher"
Written by Marcelo Vianna; 1998.
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Carousel
Loads several random images, and displays them flying in a circular formation. The formation changes speed and direction randomly, and images periodically drop out to be replaced by new ones.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2005.
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CCurve
Generates self-similar linear fractals, including the classic "C Curve".Wikipedia: "Levy C curve"
Written by Rick Campbell; 1999.
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Celtic
Repeatedly draws random Celtic cross-stitch patterns.Wikipedia: "Celtic knot"
Wikipedia: "Knots and graphs"
Written by Max Froumentin; 2005.
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Circuit
Animates a number of 3D electronic components.Written by Ben Buxton; 2001.
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CloudLife
Generates cloud-like formations based on a variant of Conway's Life. The difference is that cells have a maximum age, after which they count as 3 for populating the next generation. This makes long-lived formations explode instead of just sitting there.Wikipedia: "Conway's Game of Life"
Written by Don Marti; 2003.
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CompanionCube
The symptoms most commonly produced by Enrichment Center testing are superstition, perceiving inanimate objects as alive, and hallucinations. The Enrichment Center reminds you that the weighted companion cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak. In the event that the Weighted Companion Cube does speak, the Enrichment Center urges you to disregard its advice.Wikipedia: "Portal"
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2011.
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Compass
This draws a compass, with all elements spinning about randomly, for that "lost and nauseous" feeling.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1999.
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Coral
Simulates coral growth, albeit somewhat slowly.Written by Frederick Roeber; 1997.
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Crackberg
Flies through height maps, optionally animating the creation and destruction of generated tiles; tiles `grow' into place.Written by Matus Telgarsky; 2005.
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Crystal
Moving polygons, similar to a kaleidoscope. See also the "Kaleidescope" and "GLeidescope" screen savers.Wikipedia: "Kaleidoscope"
Written by Jouk Jansen; 1998.
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Cube21
Animates a Rubik-like puzzle known as Cube 21 or Square-1. The rotations are chosen randomly. See also the "Rubik", "RubikBlocks" and "GLSnake" screen savers.Wikipedia: "Square One"
Written by Vasek Potocek; 2005.
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Cubenetic
Draws a pulsating set of overlapping boxes with ever-chaning blobby patterns undulating across their surfaces. It's sort of a cubist Lavalite.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2002.
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CubeStorm
Draws a series of rotating 3D boxes that intersect each other and eventually fill space.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2003.
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CubicGrid
Draws the view of an observer located inside a rotating 3D lattice of colored points.Written by Vasek Potocek; 2007.
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CWaves
This generates a languidly-scrolling vertical field of sinusoidal colors.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2007.
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Cynosure
Random dropshadowed rectangles pop onto the screen in lockstep.Written by Ozymandias G. Desiderata, Jamie Zawinski, and Stephen Linhart; 1998.
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DangerBall
Draws a ball that periodically extrudes many random spikes. Ouch!Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2001.
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DecayScreen
This takes an image and makes it melt, toward a randomly chosen point or direction. Warning, if the effect continues after the screen saver is off, seek medical attention.Written by David Wald, Vivek Khera, Jamie Zawinski, and Vince Levey; 1993.
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Deco
Subdivides and colors rectangles randomly, for a Mondrian-esque effect.Wikipedia: "Piet Mondrian: Paris 1919.
Written by Jamie Zawinski and Michael Bayne; 1997.
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Deluxe
Draws a pulsing sequence of transparent stars, circles, and lines.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1999.
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Demon
A cellular automaton that starts with a random field, and organizes it into stripes and spirals.Wikipedia: "Maxwell's demon"
Written by David Bagley; 1999.
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Discrete
Discrete map fractal systems, including variants of Hopalong, Julia, and others.Written by Tim Auckland; 1998.
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Distort
Wandering lenses distort the screen image in various ways.Written by Jonas Munsin; 1998.
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Drift
Drifting recursive fractal cosmic flames.Written by Scott Draves; 1997.
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Endgame
Black slips out of three mating nets, but the fourth one holds him tight! A brilliant composition!See also the "Queens" screen saver.
Written by Blair Tennessy; 2002.
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Engine
Draws a simple model of an engine that floats around the screen.Wikipedia: "Internal combustion engine: Operation"
Written by Ben Buxton and Ed Beroset; 2001.
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Epicycle
This draws the path traced out by a point on the edge of a circle. That circle rotates around a point on the rim of another circle, and so on, several times. These were the basis for the pre-heliocentric model of planetary motion.Wikipedia: "Deferent and epicycle"
Written by James Youngman; 1998.
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Eruption
Exploding fireworks. See also the "Fireworkx", "XFlame" and "Pyro" screen savers.Written by W.P. van Paassen; 2003.
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Euler2D
Simulates two dimensional incompressible inviscid fluid flow.Wikipedia: "Euler equations"
Wikipedia: "Inviscid flow"
Written by Stephen Montgomery-Smith; 2002.
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Extrusion
Draws various rotating extruded shapes that twist around, lengthen, and turn inside out.Written by Linas Vepstas, David Konerding, and Jamie Zawinski; 1999.
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FadePlot
Draws what looks like a waving ribbon following a sinusoidal path.Written by Bas van Gaalen and Charles Vidal; 1997.
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Fiberlamp
Draws a groovy rotating fiber optic lamp.Written by Tim Auckland; 2005.
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Fireworkx
Exploding fireworks. See also the "Eruption", "XFlame" and "Pyro" screen savers.Written by Rony B Chandran; 2004.
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Flame
Iterative fractals.Written by Scott Draves; 1993.
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FlipFlop
Draws a grid of 3D colored tiles that change positions with each other.Written by Kevin Ogden and Sergio Gutierrez; 2003.
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FlipScreen3D
Spins and deforms an image.Written by Ben Buxton and Jamie Zawinski; 2001.
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FlipText
Draws successive pages of text. The lines flip in and out in a soothing 3D pattern.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2005.
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Flow
Strange attractors formed of flows in a 3D differential equation phase space. Features the popular attractors described by Lorentz, Roessler, Birkhoff and Duffing, and can discover entirely new attractors by itself.Wikipedia: "Attractor: Strange attractor"
Written by Tim Auckland; 1998.
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FluidBalls
Models the physics of bouncing balls, or of particles in a gas or fluid, depending on the settings. If "Shake Box" is selected, then every now and then, the box will be rotated, changing which direction is down (in order to keep the settled balls in motion.)Written by Peter Birtles and Jamie Zawinski; 2002.
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Flurry
This X11 port of the OSX screensaver of the same name draws a colourful star(fish)like flurry of particles.Original Mac version: http://
Written by Calum Robinson and Tobias Sargeant; 2002.
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FlyingToasters
A fleet of 3d space-age jet-powered flying toasters (and toast!) Inspired by the ancient Berkeley Systems After Dark flying toasters.Wikipedia: "After Dark (software): Flying Toasters"
Written by Jamie Zawinski and Devon Dossett; 2003.
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FontGlide
Puts text on the screen using large characters that glide in from the edges, assemble, then disperse. Alternately, it can simply scroll whole sentences from right to left.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2003.
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FuzzyFlakes
Falling colored snowflake/flower shapes.Wikipedia: "Snowflake"
Written by Barry Dmytro; 2004.
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Galaxy
This draws spinning galaxies, which then collide and scatter their stars to the, uh, four winds or something.Written by Uli Siegmund, Harald Backert, and Hubert Feyrer; 1997.
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Gears
This draws sets of turning, interlocking gears, rotating in three dimensions. See also the "Pinion" and "MöbiusGears" screen savers.Wikipedia: "Involute gear"
Wikipedia: "Epicyclic gearing"
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2007.
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GFlux
Draws undulating waves on a rotating grid.Written by Josiah Pease; 2000.
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GLBlur
Generates flowing field effects from the vapor trails around a moving object.This is done by rendering the scene into a small texture, then repeatedly rendering increasingly-enlarged and increasingly-transparent versions of that texture onto the frame buffer. As such, it's quite GPU-intensive: if you don't have a very good graphics card, it will hurt your machine bad.
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2002.
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GLCells
Cells growing, dividing and dying on your screen. Microscopic pathos.Written by Matthias Toussaint; 2007.
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Gleidescope
A kaleidoscope that operates on a loaded image.Wikipedia: "Kaleidoscope"
Written by Andrew Dean; 2003.
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GLHanoi
Solves the Towers of Hanoi puzzle. Move N disks from one pole to another, one disk at a time, with no disk ever resting on a disk smaller than itself.Wikipedia: "Tower of Hanoi"
Written by Dave Atkinson; 2005.
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GLKnots
Generates some twisting 3d knot patterns. Spins 'em around.Wikipedia: "Knot theory"
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2003.
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GLMatrix
Draws the 3D "digital rain" effect, as seen in the title sequence of "The Matrix".See also "xmatrix" for a 2D rendering of the similar effect that appeared on the computer monitors actually *in* the movie.
Wikipedia: "Matrix digital rain"
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2003.
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GLPlanet
Draws the Earth bouncing around in space.If you would like it to display a different planet, the texture maps that come with "ssystem" work well.
Written by David Konerding; 1998.
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GLSchool
Uses Craig Reynolds' classic "Boids" algorithm to simulate a school of fish.Wikipedia: "Boids"
Written by David C. Lambert; 2006.
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GLSlideshow
Loads a random sequence of images and smoothly scans and zooms around in each, fading from pan to pan.Written by Jamie Zawinski and Mike Oliphant; 2003.
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GLSnake
Draws a simulation of the Rubik's Snake puzzle. See also the "Rubik" and "Cube21" screen savers.Wikipedia: "Rubik's Snake"
Written by Jamie Wilkinson, Andrew Bennetts, and Peter Aylett; 2002.
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GLText
Displays a few lines of text spinning around in a solid 3D font. The text can use strftime() escape codes to display the current date and time.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2001.
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Goop
This draws set of animating, transparent, amoeba-like blobs. The blobs change shape as they wander around the screen, and they are translucent, so you can see the lower blobs through the higher ones, and when one passes over another, their colors merge. I got the idea for this from a mouse pad I had once, which achieved the same kind of effect in real life by having several layers of plastic with colored oil between them.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1997.
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Grav
This draws a simple orbital simulation. With trails enabled, it looks kind of like a cloud-chamber photograph.Written by Greg Bowering; 1997.
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Greynetic
Draws random colored, stippled and transparent rectangles.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1992.
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Halftone
Draws the gravity force in each point on the screen seen through a halftone dot pattern. The gravity force is calculated from a set of moving mass points. View it from a distance for best effect.Wikipedia: "Halftone"
Written by Peter Jaric; 2002.
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Halo
Draws circular interference patterns that hurt to look at.Wikipedia: "Moiré pattern"
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1993.
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Helix
Spirally string-art-ish patterns.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1992.
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Hexadrop
Draws a grid of hexagons or other shapes and drops them out.Wikipedia: "Tiling by regular polygons"
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2013.
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Hilbert
This draws the recursive Hilbert space-filling curve, in both 2D and 3D variants. It incrementally animates the growth and recursion to the maximum depth, then unwinds it back.The Hilbert path is a single contiguous line that can fill a volume without crossing itself. As a data structure, Hilbert paths are useful because ordering along the curve preserves locality: points that are close together along the curve are also close together in space. The converse is often, but not always, true. The coloration reflects this.
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2011.
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Hopalong
This draws lacy fractal patterns based on iteration in the imaginary plane, from a 1986 Scientific American article. See also the "Discrete" screen saver.Written by Patrick Naughton; 1992.
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Hypertorus
This shows a rotating Clifford Torus: a torus lying on the "surface" of a 4D hypersphere. Inspired by Thomas Banchoff's book "Beyond the Third Dimension: Geometry, Computer Graphics, and Higher Dimensions", Scientific American Library, 1990.Wikipedia: "N-sphere"
Wikipedia: "Clifford torus"
Wikipedia: "Regular polytope"
Written by Carsten Steger; 2003.
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Hypnowheel
Draws a series of overlapping, translucent spiral patterns. The tightness of their spirals fluctuates in and out.Wikipedia: "Moiré pattern"
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2008.
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IFS
Clouds of iterated function systems spin and collide.Note that the "Detail" parameter is exponential. Number of points drawn is functions^detail.
Wikipedia: "Iterated function system"
Written by Chris Le Sueur and Robby Griffin; 1997.
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IMSMap
This generates random cloud-like patterns. The idea is to take four points on the edge of the image, and assign each a random "elevation". Then find the point between them, and give it a value which is the average of the other four, plus some small random offset. Coloration is done based on elevation.Written by Juergen Nickelsen and Jamie Zawinski; 1992.
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Interaggregate
Pale pencil-like scribbles slowly fill the screen.A surface is filled with a hundred medium to small sized circles. Each circle has a different size and direction, but moves at the same slow rate. Displays the instantaneous intersections of the circles as well as the aggregate intersections of the circles.
Though actually it doesn't look like circles at all!
Written by Casey Reas, William Ngan, Robert Hodgin, and Jamie Zawinski; 2004.
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Interference
Color field based on computing decaying sinusoidal waves.Written by Hannu Mallat; 1998.
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Intermomentary
Blinking dots interact with each other circularly.A surface is filled with a hundred medium to small sized circles. Each circle has a different size and direction, but moves at the same slow rate. Displays the instantaneous intersections of the circles as well as the aggregate intersections of the circles.
The circles begin with a radius of 1 pixel and slowly increase to some arbitrary size. Circles are drawn with small moving points along the perimeter. The intersections are rendered as glowing orbs. Glowing orbs are rendered only when a perimeter point moves past the intersection point.
Written by Casey Reas, William Ngan, Robert Hodgin, and Jamie Zawinski; 2004.
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JigglyPuff
This does bad things with quasi-spherical objects.You have a tetrahedron with tesselated faces. The vertices on these faces have forces on them: one proportional to the distance from the surface of a sphere; and one proportional to the distance from the neighbors. They also have inertia. The resulting effect can range from a shape that does nothing, to a frenetic polygon storm. Somewhere in between there it usually manifests as a blob that jiggles in a kind of disturbing manner.
Written by Keith Macleod; 2003.
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Jigsaw
This carves an image up into a jigsaw puzzle, shuffles it, and solves it.Wikipedia: "Jigsaw puzzle"
Wikipedia: "Tessellation"
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1997.
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Juggler3D
Draws a 3D juggling stick-man, with Cambridge juggling pattern notation used to describe the patterns he juggles.Wikipedia: "Siteswap"
Written by Tim Auckland and Jamie Zawinski; 2002.
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Julia
Animates the Julia set (a close relative of the Mandelbrot set). The small moving dot indicates the control point from which the rest of the image was generated. See also the "Discrete" screen saver.Wikipedia: "Julia set"
Written by Sean McCullough; 1997.
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Kaleidescope
A simple kaleidoscope made of line segments. See "GLeidescope" for a more sophisticated take.Wikipedia: "Kaleidoscope"
Written by Ron Tapia; 1997.
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Kaleidocycle
Draw a ring composed of tetrahedra connected at the edges that twists and rotates toroidally.When a series of tetrahedra are joined at the edges in a loop, it is possible for them to rotate continously through the center without deforming. This only works with an even number of tetrahedra, and there must be eight or more, or they don't fit.
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2013.
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Klein
This animates a Klein bottle, the 4D analog of a möbius strip.You can walk on the surface of the bottle or rotate it in 4D or walk on it while it rotates in 4D. Inspired by Thomas Banchoff's book "Beyond the Third Dimension: Geometry, Computer Graphics, and Higher Dimensions", Scientific American Library, 1990.
Written by Carsten Steger; 2008.
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Kumppa
Spiraling, spinning, and very, very fast splashes of color rush toward the screen.Written by Teemu Suutari; 1998.
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Lament
Animates a simulation of Lemarchand's Box, the Lament Configuration, repeatedly solving itself.Warning: occasionally opens doors.
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1998.
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Lavalite
Draws a 3D Simulation a Lava Lite(r). Odd-shaped blobs of a mysterious substance are heated, slowly rise to the top of the bottle, and then drop back down as they cool. This simulation requires a fairly fast machine (both CPU and 3D performance.)"LAVA LITE(r) and the configuration of the LAVA(r) brand motion lamp are registered trademarks of Haggerty Enterprises, Inc. The configuration of the globe and base of the motion lamp are registered trademarks of Haggerty Enterprises, Inc. in the U.S.A. and in other countries around the world."
Wikipedia: "Lava lamp"
Wikipedia: "Metaballs"
Wikipedia: "Lavarand"
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2002.
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Lockward
A translucent spinning, blinking thing. Sort of a cross between the wards in an old combination lock and those old backlit information displays that animated and changed color via polarized light.Written by Leo L. Schwab; 2007.
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Loop
A cellular automaton that generates loop-shaped colonies that spawn, age, and eventually die.Wikipedia: "Langton's loops"
Written by David Bagley; 1999.
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m6502
This emulates a 6502 microprocessor, and runs some example programs on it.The family of 6502 chips were used throughout the 70's and 80's in machines such as the Atari 2600, Commodore PET, VIC20 and C64, Apple ][, and the NES. Some example programs are included, and it can also read in an assembly file as input.
Original JavaScript Version by Stian Soreng: http://
Written by Stian Soreng and Jeremy English; 2007.
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Maze
This generates random mazes, with three different algorithms: Kruskal, Prim, and a depth-first recursive backtracker. It also solves them. Backtracking and look-ahead paths are displayed in different colors.Wikipedia: “Maze generation algorithm”
Wikipedia: “Maze solving algorithm”
Written by Martin Weiss, Dave Lemke, Jim Randell, Jamie Zawinski, Johannes Keukelaar, and Zack Weinberg; 1985.
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MemScroller
This draws a dump of its own process memory scrolling across the screen in three windows at three different rates.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2004.
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Menger
This draws the recursive Menger Gasket, a cube-based fractal object analagous to the Sierpinski Tetrahedron.Wikipedia: “Menger sponge”
Wikipedia: “Sierpinski carpet”
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2001.
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MetaBalls
Draws two dimensional metaballs: overlapping and merging balls with fuzzy edges.Wikipedia: “Metaballs”
Written by W.P. van Paassen; 2003.
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MirrorBlob
Draws a wobbly blob that distorts the image behind it.Written by Jon Dowdall; 2003.
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Möbius
This animates a 3D rendition M.C. Escher’s “Möbius Strip II”, an image of ants walking along the surface of a möbius strip.Wikipedia: “Möbius strip”
Wikipedia: “Maurits Cornelis Escher”
Written by Marcelo F. Vianna; 1997.
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MöbiusGears
Draws a closed, interlinked chain of rotating gears. The layout of the gears follows the path of a möbius strip. See also the “Pinion” and “Gears” screen savers.Wikipedia: “Involute gear”
Wikipedia: “Möbius strip”
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2007.
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Moiré
When the lines on the screen
Make more lines in between,
That’s a moiré!Wikipedia: “Moiré pattern”
Written by Jamie Zawinski and Michael Bayne; 1997.
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Moiré2
Generates fields of concentric circles or ovals, and combines the planes with various operations. The planes are moving independently of one another, causing the interference lines to spray.Wikipedia: “Moiré pattern”
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1998.
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Molecule
Draws several different representations of molecules. Some common molecules are built in, and it can also read PDB (Protein Data Bank) files as input.Wikipedia: “Protein Data Bank”
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2001.
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Morph3D
Platonic solids that turn inside out and get spikey.Wikipedia: “Platonic solid”
Written by Marcelo Vianna; 1997.
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Mountain
Generates random 3D plots that look vaguely mountainous.Written by Pascal Pensa; 1997.
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Munch
DATAI 2
ADDB 1,2
ROTC 2,-22
XOR 1,2
JRST .-4As reported by HAKMEM (MIT AI Memo 239, 1972), Jackson Wright wrote the above PDP-1 code in 1962. That code still lives on here, some 46 years later.
In “mismunch” mode, it displays a creatively broken misimplementation of the classic munching squares algorithm instead.
Wikipedia: “HAKMEM”
Wikipedia: “Munching square”
Written by Jackson Wright, Tim Showalter, Jamie Zawinski and Steven Hazel; 1997.
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NerveRot
Draws different shapes composed of nervously vibrating squiggles, as if seen through a camera operated by a monkey on crack.Written by Dan Bornstein; 2000.
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Noof
Draws some flowery, rotatey patterns.Written by Bill Torzewski; 2004.
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NoseGuy
A little man with a big nose wanders around your screen saying things.Written by Dan Heller and Jamie Zawinski; 1992.
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Pacman
Simulates a game of Pac-Man on a randomly-created level.Wikipedia: “Pac-Man”
Written by Edwin de Jong; 2004.
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Pedal
A demonstration of the even-odd winding rule.Wikipedia: “Even-odd rule”
Wikipedia: “Nonzero-rule”
Written by Dale Moore; 1995.
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Penetrate
Simulates (something like) the classic arcade game Missile Command.Wikipedia: “Missile Command”
Written by Adam Miller; 1999.
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Penrose
Draws quasiperiodic tilings; think of the implications on modern formica technology.In April 1997, Sir Roger Penrose, a British math professor who has worked with Stephen Hawking on such topics as relativity, black holes, and whether time has a beginning, filed a copyright-infringement lawsuit against the Kimberly-Clark Corporation, which Penrose said copied a pattern he created (a pattern demonstrating that “a nonrepeating pattern could exist in nature”) for its Kleenex quilted toilet paper. Penrose said he doesn’t like litigation but, “When it comes to the population of Great Britain being invited by a multinational to wipe their bottoms on what appears to be the work of a Knight of the Realm, then a last stand must be taken.”
As reported by News of the Weird #491, 4-Jul-1997.
Wikipedia: “Penrose tiling”
Wikipedia: “Tessellation”
Written by Timo Korvola; 1997.
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Petri
This simulates colonies of mold growing in a petri dish. Growing colored circles overlap and leave spiral interference in their wake.Written by Dan Bornstein; 1999.
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Phosphor
Draws a simulation of an old terminal, with large pixels and long-sustain phosphor.On MacOS and Linux, this program is also a fully-functional VT100 emulator! Run it as an application instead of as a screen saver and you can use it as a terminal.
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1999.
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Photopile
Loads several random images, and displays them as if lying in a random pile. The pile is periodically reshuffled, with new images coming in and old ones being thrown out.Written by Jens Kilian; 2008.
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Piecewise
This draws a bunch of moving circles which switch from visibility to invisibility at intersection points.Written by Geoffrey Irving; 2003.
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Pinion
Draws an interconnected set of gears moving across the screen. See also the “Gears” and “MöbiusGears” screen savers.Wikipedia: “Involute gear”
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2004.
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Pipes
A growing plumbing system, with bolts and valves.Written by Marcelo Vianna; 1997.
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Polyhedra
Displays the 75 uniform polyhedra and their duals, plus 5 prisms and antiprisms, and some information about each.Wikipedia: “Uniform polyhedra”
Wikipedia: “Stellation”
Written by Dr. Zvi Har’El and Jamie Zawinski; 2004.
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Polyominoes
Repeatedly attempts to completely fill a rectangle with irregularly-shaped puzzle pieces.Wikipedia: “Polyomino”
Written by Stephen Montgomery-Smith; 2002.
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Polytopes
This shows one of the six regular 4D polytopes rotating in 4D.Inspired by H.S.M Coxeter’s book “Regular Polytopes”, 3rd Edition, Dover Publications, Inc., 1973, and Thomas Banchoff’s book “Beyond the Third Dimension: Geometry, Computer Graphics, and Higher Dimensions”, Scientific American Library, 1990.
Wikipedia: “Hypercube”
Wikipedia: “Tesseract”
Wikipedia: “Regular polytope”
Written by Carsten Steger; 2003.
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Pong
This simulates the 1971 Pong home video game, as well as various artifacts from displaying it on a color TV set.In clock mode, the score keeps track of the current time.
Written by Jeremy English and Trevor Blackwell; 2003.
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PopSquares
This draws a pop-art-ish looking grid of pulsing colors.Written by Levi Burton; 2003.
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Providence
“A pyramid unfinished. In the zenith an eye in a triangle, surrounded by a glory, proper.”Wikipedia: “Eye of Providence”
Written by Blair Tennessy; 2004.
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Pulsar
Draws some intersecting planes, making use of alpha blending, fog, textures, and mipmaps.Written by David Konerding; 1999.
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Pyro
Exploding fireworks. See also the “Fireworkx”, “Eruption”, and “XFlame” screen savers.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1992.
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Qix
Bounces a series of line segments around the screen, and uses variations on this basic motion pattern to produce all sorts of different presentations: line segments, filled polygons, and overlapping translucent areas.Wikipedia: “Qix”
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1992.
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QuasiCrystal
A quasicrystal is a structure that is ordered but aperiodic. Two-dimensional quasicrystals can be generated by adding a set of planes where x is the sine of y. Different complex aperiodic plane tilings are produced depending on the period, position, and rotation of the component planes, and whether the rotation of the planes is evenly distributed around the circle (the “symmetry” option, above) or random.See also the “RD-Bomb”, “CWaves” and “Penrose” screen savers.
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2013.
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Queens
The N-Queens problem: how to place N queens on an NxN chessboard such that no queen can attack a sister?See also the “Endgame” screen saver.
Wikipedia: “Eight queens puzzle”
Written by Blair Tennessy; 2002.
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RDbomb
Reaction-diffusion: draws a grid of growing square-like shapes that, once they overtake each other, react in unpredictable ways.Written by Scott Draves; 1997.
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Ripples
Rippling interference patterns reminiscent of splashing water distort a loaded image.Written by Tom Hammersley; 1999.
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Rocks
This draws an animation of flight through an asteroid field, with changes in rotation and direction.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1992.
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Rorschach
This generates random inkblot patterns via a reflected random walk. Any deep-seated neurotic tendencies which this program reveals are your own problem.Wikipedia: “Rorschach inkblot test”
Wikipedia: “Random walk”
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1992.
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RotZoomer
Distorts an image by rotating and scaling random sections of it.Written by Claudio Matsuoka; 2001.
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Rubik
Draws a Rubik’s Cube that rotates in three dimensions and repeatedly shuffles and solves itself. See also the “GLSnake” and “Cube21″ screen savers.Wikipedia: “Rubik’s Cube”
Written by Marcelo Vianna; 1997.
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RubikBlocks
Animates the Rubik’s Mirror Blocks puzzle. See also the “Rubik”, “Cube21″, and “GLSnake” screen savers.Wikipedia: “Combination puzzles: Irregular cuboids”
Written by Vasek Potocek; 2009.
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SBalls
Draws an animation of textured balls spinning like crazy.Written by Eric Lassauge; 2002.
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ShadeBobs
This draws smoothly-shaded oscillating oval patterns that look something like vapor trails or neon tubes.Written by Shane Smit; 1999.
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Sierpinski
This draws the two-dimensional variant of the recursive Sierpinski triangle fractal. See also the “Sierpinski3D” screen saver.Wikipedia: “Sierpinski triangle”
Written by Desmond Daignault; 1997.
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Sierpinski3D
The recursive Sierpinski tetrahedron fractal.Wikipedia: “Sierpinski triangle: Analogs in higher dimension”
Written by Jamie Zawinski and Tim Robinson; 1999.
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SkyTentacles
There is a tentacled abomination in the sky. From above you it devours.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2008.
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SlideScreen
A variant on a “fifteen puzzle”, operating on the screen or an image. It divides the image into a grid and randomly shuffles the squares.Wikipedia: “Fifteen puzzle”
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1994.
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Slip
This throws some random bits on the screen, then sucks them through a jet engine and spews them out the other side. To avoid turning the image completely to mush, every now and then it will it interject some splashes of color into the scene, or go into a spin cycle, or stretch the image like taffy.Written by Scott Draves and Jamie Zawinski; 1997.
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Sonar
This draws a sonar screen that pings (get it?) the hosts on your local network, and plots their distance (response time) from you. The three rings represent ping times of approximately 2.5, 70 and 2,000 milliseconds respectively.Alternately, it can run a simulation that doesn’t involve hosts.
(If pinging doesn’t work on Linux, you may need to make the executable be setuid.)
Written by Jamie Zawinski and Stephen Martin; 1998.
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SpeedMine
Simulates speeding down a rocky mineshaft, or a funky dancing worm.Written by Conrad Parker; 2001.
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Spheremonics
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 notably the eigenfunctions of angular momentum operators.Wikipedia: “Spherical harmonics: Visualization of the spherical harmonics”
Written by Paul Bourke and Jamie Zawinski; 2002.
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Spotlight
A spotlight scanning across a black screen, illuminating a loaded image when it passes.Written by Rick Schultz and Jamie Zawinski; 1999.
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Sproingies
Slinky-like creatures walk down an infinite staircase and occasionally explode!Wikipedia: “Slinky”
Wikipedia: “Q*bert”
Wikipedia: “Marble Madness”
Written by Ed Mackey; 1997.
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Squiral
Draws a set of interacting, square-spiral-producing automata. The spirals grow outward until they hit something, then they go around it.Written by Jeff Epler; 1999.
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Stairs
Escher’s infinite staircase.Wikipedia: “Maurits Cornelis Escher”
Written by Marcelo Vianna; 1998.
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Starfish
Undulating, throbbing, star-like patterns pulsate, rotate, and turn inside out. Another display mode uses these shapes to lay down a field of colors, which are then cycled. The motion is very organic.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1997.
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StarWars
Draws a stream of text slowly scrolling into the distance at an angle, over a star field, like at the beginning of the movie of the same name.Wikipedia: “Star Wars opening crawl”
Written by Jamie Zawinski and Claudio Matauoka; 2001.
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StonerView
Chains of colorful squares dance around each other in complex spiral patterns. Inspired by David Tristram’s `electropaint’ screen saver, originally written for SGI computers in the late 1980s or early 1990s.Written by Andrew Plotkin; 2001.
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Strange
This draws iterations to strange attractors: it’s a colorful, unpredictably-animating swarm of dots that swoops and twists around.Wikipedia: “Attractor: Strange attractor”
Written by Massimino Pascal; 1997.
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Substrate
Crystalline lines grow on a computational substrate. A simple perpendicular growth rule creates intricate city-like structures.Written by J. Tarbell and Mike Kershaw; 2004.
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Superquadrics
Morphing 3D shapes.Written by Ed Mackey; 1987, 1997.
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Surfaces
This draws a visualization of several interesting parametric surfaces.MathWorld: “Dinis Surface”
Wikipedia: “Enneper surface”
MathWorld: “Ennepers Minimal Surface”
MathWorld: “Kuen Surface”
Wikipedia: “Möbius strip”
MathWorld: “Seashell”
MathWorld: “Swallowtail Catastrophe”
MathWorld: “Bohemian Dome”
Wikipedia: “Whitney umbrella”
MathWorld: “Plueckers Conoid”
MathWorld: “Hennebergs Minimal Surface”
MathWorld: “Catalans Surface”
MathWorld: “Corkscrew Surface”
Written by Andrey Mirtchovski and Carsten Steger; 2003.
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Swirl
Flowing, swirly patterns.Written by M. Dobie and R. Taylor; 1997.
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Tangram
Solves tangram puzzles.Wikipedia: “Tangram”
Written by Jeremy English; 2005.
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Thornbird
Displays a view of the “Bird in a Thornbush” fractal.Written by Tim Auckland; 2002.
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TimeTunnel
Draws an animation similar to the opening and closing effects on the Dr. Who TV show.Written by Sean P. Brennan; 2005.
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TopBlock
Creates a 3D world with dropping blocks that build up and up. Written by rednuht; 2006.Image may be NSFW.
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Triangle
Generates random mountain ranges using iterative subdivision of triangles.Written by Tobias Gloth; 1997.
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TronBit
Draws an animation of the character “Bit” from the film, “Tron”.The “yes” state is a tetrahedron; the “no” state is the second stellation of an icosahedron; and the idle state oscillates between a small triambic icosahedron and the compound of an icosahedron and a dodecahedron.
Wikipedia: “List of Tron characters: Bit”
Wikipedia: “Uniform polyhedra”
Wikipedia: “Stellation”
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2011.
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Truchet
This draws line- and arc-based truchet patterns that tile the screen.Wikipedia: “Tessellation”
Written by Adrian Likins; 1998.
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Twang
Divides the screen into a grid, and plucks them.Written by Dan Bornstein; 2002.
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UnknownPleasures
PSR B1919+21 (AKA CP 1919) was the first pulsar ever discovered: a spinning neutron star emitting a periodic lighthouse-like beacon. An illustration of the signal received from it was published in Scientific American in 1971, and later in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy in 1977, where it was seen by Stephen Morris, the drummer of Joy Division, and was consequently appropriated by Peter Saville for the cover of the band’s album “Unknown Pleasures”.Wikipedia: “Pulsar”
Wikipedia: “PSR B1919+21″
Wikipedia: “Unknown Pleasures”
Wikipedia: “Peter Saville”
Wikipedia: “Joy Division”
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2013.
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Vermiculate
Draws squiggly worm-like paths.Written by Tyler Pierce; 2001.
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VidWhacker
This is a shell script that grabs a frame of video from the system’s video input, and then uses some PBM filters (chosen at random) to manipulate and recombine the video frame in various ways (edge detection, subtracting the image from a rotated version of itself, etc.) Then it displays that image for a few seconds, and does it again. This works really well if you just feed broadcast television into it.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1998.
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Voronoi
Draws a randomly-colored Voronoi tessellation, and periodically zooms in and adds new points. The existing points also wander around.There are a set of control points on the plane, each at the center of a colored cell. Every pixel within that cell is closer to that cell’s control point than to any other control point. That is what determines the cell’s shapes.
Wikipedia: “Voronoi diagram”
Wikipedia: “Tessellation”
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 2007.
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Wander
Draws a colorful random-walk, in various forms.Wikipedia: “Random walk”
Written by Rick Campbell; 1999.
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WebCollage
This is what the Internet looks like.This creates collages out of random images from the World Wide Web. It finds the images by feeding random words into various search engines, and pulling images (or sections of images) out of the pages returned.
WARNING: THE INTERNET SOMETIMES CONTAINS PORNOGRAPHY.
The Internet being what it is, absolutely anything might show up in the collage including — quite possibly — pornography, or even nudity. Please act accordingly.
See also http://
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1999.
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WhirlWindWarp
Floating stars are acted upon by a mixture of simple 2D force fields. The strength of each force field changes continuously, and it is also switched on and off at random.Written by Paul ‘Joey’ Clark; 2001.
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Wormhole
Flying through a colored wormhole in space.Written by Jon Rafkind; 2004.
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XAnalogTV
a detailed simulation of an old TV set, including artifacts like snow, bloom, distortion, ghosting, and hash noise. It also simulates the TV warming up. It will cycle through 12 channels, some with images you give it, and some with color bars or nothing but static.Written by Trevor Blackwell; 2003.
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XFlame
Draws a simulation of pulsing fire. It can also take an arbitrary image and set it on fire too.Written by Carsten Haitzler and many others; 1999.
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XJack
This behaves schizophrenically and makes a lot of typos.Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1997.
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XLyap
The Lyapunov exponent makes pretty fractal pictures.Wikipedia: “Lyapunov exponent”
Written by Ron Record; 1997.
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XMatrix
Draws the “digital rain” effect, as seen on the computer monitors in “The Matrix”.See also “GLMatrix” for a 3D rendering of the similar effect that appeared in the movie’s title sequence.
Wikipedia: “Matrix digital rain”
Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1999.
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XRaySwarm
Worm-like swarms of particles with vapor trails.Written by Chris Leger; 2000.
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XSpirograph
Simulates that pen-in-nested-plastic-gears toy from your childhood.Wikipedia: “Spirograph”
Written by Rohit Singh; 2000.
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Zoom
Fatbits! Zooms in on a part of the screen and then moves around. With the “Lenses” option, the result is like looking through many overlapping lenses rather than just a simple zoom.Written by James Macnicol; 2001.
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There are also some screen savers that were once included, but have since been retired.
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