On that special day, Jonathan Aquino, (
[email protected]) said...
http://www.redplanetsw.com/starfish/ *Generates* new wallpaper every
hour using mathematical algorithms. Results are surprisingly
beautiful. I've been using this for a few days now and am delighted.
I fully agree, this program is great. If you don't like wallpapers that
change every hour, you can also put it into your autostart and configure
it to create a picture on startup and none afterwards. So you will get
one picture per day.
The pictures themselves are nice, although the random palette sometimes
creates very pale ones. The program reads the current system time and
uses it as a seed number for some algorithms (the author doesn't tell
any specific name or term). You can specify the seed number yourself if
you like, or play around with obne given number and various settings.
Also, you can specify the range of colors used, if you like, by creating
a palette and telling starfish to use only this one. Darker green and
blue shades do very well, I also got some nice violet specimens.
I found that reducing the complexity to 50 does create (IMHO) better
results, because you will see some structure in the pictures. The
complexity 75 tends to make the results blurry, at least on my old (> 2
years) 1024x768 laptop TFT screen.
Gabriele Neukam
(e-mail address removed)