Screensavers aren’t really required with the newest generation of monitors. If you keep your monitor open a long time, you will not get the image burned on the screen, like it used to be the case with the old models. The only reason to keep screensavers alive it’s because of their beautiful images. The developers from ElectricSheep took it a step further though.

Here’s why ElectricSheep is going to blow you away:

• Unlike all the other screensavers, you do not get static images that rotate and eventually start over from the beginning
• It displays beautiful fractal images that are auto generated; you’ll never see the same animation twice
• It’s a virtual organism that grows, the code behind this app uses genetic algorithms; you can select using the keyboard which visual effects you liked and they will be used to spawn millions of other effects
• Although it would seem running such a program will require lots of CPU, it doesn’t due to the fact that all the computers running ElectricSheep communicate on the Internet and share the load

Download ElectricSheep and prepared to be amazed in your idle time.