Swarm Eye Candy ============================================================== by J.P. McGlinn jmcglinn (at) speakeasy (dot) net ============================================================== Free use license, but if you find it useful please provide attribution. ============================================================== The Swarm is a third party AfterDark screen saver module by Leo Breebaart. Should also work with DarkSide of the Mac. I found it on AppleFritter with source code. This was the first easy source code I could find. There is a .net C# version floating around but the download link required a login and I was too lazy to create an account. Swarm is available as a screen saver on SGI IRIX. I have an Indy sitting on my desk right now so I can watch it a bit. I would try out the AfterDark module, but maybe later. I have a fitting Mac (WorkGroup Server 6100/66) to try, but don't feel like setting it up right now. I want to make a version that displays on the 128x64 OLED display sold by Adafruit.com. I was thinking of using Arduino or maybe more interestingly, on the LPC1343 ARM processor. I originally thought a nice project would be porting the SSD1306 Arduino library from Adafruit to the LPC1343 within the LPC1300 library published by MicroBuilder (Kevin Townsend), but then Kevin created SSD1306 support. I took a look at Swarm by Alasdair Turner on http://www.openprocessing.org unfortunately it was not the swarm following a queen I was looking for, but it was one of the closest things I could find. I used a little bit of it, but the movement is all wrong in his version so the algorithm is different in my work. See Alasdair Turner here: http://www.openprocessing.org/portal/?userID=1033 See his Swarm implementation here: http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=7499 ============================================================== HISTORY ============================================================== 13-Mar-2011 noop 6-Feb-2011 detailed Alasdair Turner's work and cleaned up my Processing prototype a little. 6-Feb-2011 Swarm github repository created and first working prototype in Processing uploaded, along with other bits for reference.