Artificial Intelligence Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 Eternity The guy behind Ubuntu Satanic has made a new screensaver for Linux called Eternity. It works both for Gnome, KDE and Xscreensaver. Source: Ubuntuforums.org Site: Eternity Video Clips: Video 1 Video 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zibi1981 Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 It's very nice! I liked it. Is there something of that kind but regarding to Mandriva or any other distro? B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted October 3, 2007 Author Share Posted October 3, 2007 (edited) Not yet . Properly later. Also X, Y, Z distro need to build a plugin with their logo (or something else) as it's only Ubuntu (and diviants) screensavers atm. I think a glass Arch Linux logo that slowly spinning would look cool. Edited October 3, 2007 by Artificial Intelligence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 Looks cool. Is it completely pre-rendered though? otherwise its a waste of power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 From TFA: Are they pre-rendered or ray-traced in realtime? How much CPU/GPU power does it take to display them? They're pre-rendered, which took quite a few days per animation. That's the beauty of it; they take very little CPU to display (they're just MPEG2 files). Most screensavers try to generate everything on the fly with fancy coding techniques, but I figured I could get better results by rendering in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted October 3, 2007 Author Share Posted October 3, 2007 Regarding source codes: Great idea. The source code is available in bazaar on Launchpad and *should* compile for other distros. However, I'll put some work into testing it to make sure it does. Like you said, the plugins are currently very Ubuntu-centric. I guess the intention is to start with a focused target audience, although I agree that more generic stuff may have a wider appeal. A job for the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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