Hello!

Just a couple of feature wishes, considering I adore the software and would love to see it reach great heights, and hopefully millions of users creating sheep and keeping the project going and going :-)

One thing I believe would be very useful to some people, is to automatically download the genome with all loops. I use Apophysis a lot, to create high-def high-quality wallpapers, using genomes I manually grab from the archive pages.

While this can be quite relaxing, browsing that page with all the sheep with their ratings (the "best" page?) to find ones I want to render, it would be of great use to me to simply just download the genome paired with every loop downloaded during normal screensaver time. I'm hoping to learn to create a script that I can just start, and it will render all genomes in a folder (in high-def high-quality) so I have my own little art/wallpaper collection.

Considering how fast my computer downloads sheep (watching the speed by pressing.....F2 is it?......it looks like I download one sheep every 4/5 seconds), would it take up much more bandwidth by downloading it's corresponding genome into a "Genome" folder within the "Content" folder?

Another feature I would love to see, is a server archive page created (and updated whent the screensaver runs), that resides on my computer, browsable offline. Specifically I mean this page: http://v2d7b.sheepserver.net/cgi/best.cgi . Is it possible to code this page into a future version, so that it creates this page on a user's hard-drive (empty if the user has never run the screensaver before), and updates itself with every sheep downloaded? This will not take up more of your bandwidth, as coupled with my previous idea, you only have to provide the genome with every sheep downloaded. The user's computer would render the thumbnail (that'll take like....what....2 minutes if that? Considering it's size and quality) and put the thumbnail in the html archive on the user's computer.

I think basically there I'm requesting an easier way for a user to browse through the sheep he has residing on his computer, with an option to view the genomes on that html page also (tied in with my request to download the genome of each sheep).

So, what do you think? I'll admit naivety, but it shouldn't be too difficult to code in a way (at your end) to provide genomes with each sheep downloaded, and maybe yourself (or a volunteer user knowledgeable in html) could set up the user's offline archive page.

Thanks for your patience in reading all that! I wish you all the best in improving on your masterpiece