Electric Sheep wiki

Electric Sheep is a  computing project for animating and evolving fractal flames, which are in turn distributed to the networked computers, which display them as a screensaver.

The casual user can simply install the software as a screensaver. Such a user gets to see highly abstract , in return for allowing the user's computer to be used for rendering the next set of .

More sophisticated users may create customized fractal parameter files, and submit it to the network for rendering.

The Electric Sheep wiki discusses all of this in more detail.