by lioeters on 10/7/22, 12:05 AM
by Waterluvian on 10/7/22, 3:15 AM
Are these screensavers designed to be impressive and fun while also requiring minimal processor (battery)?
I always assumed the screensavers that ship with the Mac are carefully designed not to unnecessarily drain the battery, but I realised just now that’s just an assumption.
by behnamoh on 10/7/22, 4:33 AM
It's taxing on CPU and GPU:
normal | running screensaver in browser
CPU: 5% | 15%
GPU: 10% | 45%
by Angostura on 10/7/22, 12:39 PM
Drift is beautiful, but for some reason, it makes me anxious when watching it - uneasy - and I have no idea why. Anyone else?
by nsxwolf on 10/7/22, 7:19 AM
Why did screensavers ever do anything besides just blanking the screen?
by spk_ on 10/7/22, 7:58 AM
"it might stand to dethrone the venerable Flurry screensaver" - You are absolutely right. The first time I saw the screensaver, I was completely mesmerized and watched it for a few minutes before getting back to work.
Out of curiosity, why Rust? Not saying anything against it, just looking to understand your take on it.
by qwerty456127 on 10/7/22, 8:47 AM
I want the original text-mode (or, perhaps even better, imitated text mode over the full-resolution graphics mode) starry night sky from the Norton Commander :-)
by krackers on 10/7/22, 1:31 AM
What's the gist behind how the flow lines are generated? It looks sort of like the vector field for a differential equation, can we plug in our own values?
by mlindner on 10/11/22, 11:48 PM
Looks similiar but the colors are significantly subdued compared to the native macOS version. I guess they're only using a more limited color pallete than what MacOS uses?
by totetsu on 10/10/22, 1:55 PM
Has anyone else seen the macOS version of this bug out and look like fast moving fireworks for a moment when launching when the system is under high load?
by etaioinshrdlu on 10/7/22, 7:31 AM
What's the missing secret sauce that the anonymous apple employee alludes to? Any guesses?
by infogulch on 10/7/22, 6:50 AM
I guess a screensaver is only useful if the screen startup is slow.
by ben_ on 10/7/22, 9:05 AM
Was hoping someone had remade this for windows, great work!
by RektBoy on 10/7/22, 8:59 AM
Holy... looking at this screensaver, this triggers some new phobia in me, I didn't know I have. Thx