From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 2 0:17:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from chmod.ath.cx (CC2-861.charter-stl.com [24.217.115.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7ECD37B423 for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 00:17:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx) Received: by chmod.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6EFAAA876; Wed, 2 May 2001 02:16:00 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 02:16:00 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford To: Andy Sloane Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: new syscons screensaver Message-ID: <20010502021600.A34130@cec.wustl.edu> References: <20010502005000.B19547@guild.guildsoftware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010502005000.B19547@guild.guildsoftware.com>; from andy@guildsoftware.com on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:50:00AM -0500 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:50:00AM -0500, Andy Sloane wrote: > Hello, > > I just wrote a new syscons screensaver which I think is much more > interesting than the other ones, while still being relatively easy on the > CPU (much less CPU intensive than "fire", anyway). Please review it and > let me know what you think. > > It's the bsd daemon logo (with much editing, thanks to my coworker Waylon) > floating (with a realtime shadow!) above a bunch of tiled spheres which > move around and morph. It's only one palette change per frame, until the > bsd daemon moves. > > http://fear.incarnate.net/~andude/balls.tar.gz > > I'm not on this list, so please reply directly to me. Thanks. > > -Andy First, you should know that I absolutely love your first name. :) The screensaver isn't bad, and it gets pretty trippy when you focus at infinity and let the 3D-Illusions (TM) effect set in. If I were to make one suggestion, it would be to animate Beastie, so that he walks around the screen rather than teleporting everywhere. However, I'm quite fond of the green_saver module, which shuts down my monitor after 15 minutes. Other screensavers are really just for entertainment; I think green_saver is the only one that serves a really good purpose. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message