The Electric Sheep and their Dreams in High Fidelity

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.

ABSTRACT


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.

This cyborg mind composed of...

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Howto & Style

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• Sheep
• Animals
• google

[dennisonicool]

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

[theillphil]

Electric Sheep <3

[Beatelectrico]

Electric sheep is awesome.

[Caleb6543]

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

[fabs7744]

niceeeee

[lloolliippopp]

100 years o.OOOOOOOOOO

i love electricsheep

[fanfune]

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

[sharethehouse]

electric sheep is the best screensaver ever made..

[XeroJager]

Holy shit. Longest video ever.

But this is awesome.

[Splatball]

fuuunnn........... ya...... sure.....