Because it is generative and evolving, the animations are infinite and non-repeating. Experience Electric Sheep in 4K University of Wisconsin–Madison
The "flock" evolves over time. Users vote for sheep they like; popular sheep "mate" to produce offspring with inherited traits, while unpopular ones "die" off.
At its core, is a distributed screen-saver that uses a global network of idle computers to render complex fractal animations, known as "sheep". When your computer goes to sleep, it communicates with a central server to join a massive "render farm," contributing its processing power to create new, morphing abstract visuals.
Electric Sheep 4K: The Ultimate Guide to the Internet’s Collective Dream
is the high-definition evolution of one of the longest-running and most influential generative art projects in history . Named as an homage to Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? , this software transforms your screen into a window looking into a "collective dream" shared by thousands of computers worldwide. What is Electric Sheep?
Every animation is based on the Fractal Flame algorithm invented by Scott Draves.