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The Electric Sheep and their Dreams in High Fidelity

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Uploaded by on Jul 23, 2007

Google Tech Talks
September 14, 2006

Scott Draves a.k.a. Spot is a software artist residing in San Francisco. His award-winning work has appeared in Wired Magazine, the Prix Ars Electronica, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and on the dance-floor at the Sonar festival in Barcelona.

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Electric Sheep is a distributed screen-saver that harnesses idle computers into a render farm with the purpose of animating and evolving artificial life-forms known as sheep. The votes of the users form the basis for the fitness function for a genetic algorithm on a space of abstract animations. Users also may design sheep by hand for inclusion in the gene pool.

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  • Yeah electric sheep rox. Is the best screensaver ever!!

  • Electric Sheep <3

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  • Electric sheep is awesome.

  • Is it ethical to eat up that much bandwidth and processing power for a screensaver? These "electric sheep" must have a huge carbon footprint.

  • niceeeee

  • 100 years o.OOOOOOOOOO

    i love electricsheep

  • so cool. Scott Draves is amazing. ridiculously beautiful stuff.

  • electric sheep is the best screensaver ever made..

  • Holy shit. Longest video ever.

    But this is awesome.

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