Design Your Own Sheep

While the screensaver is running, you can use the up (or down) arrow key to vote for the sheep you like (or not), and so influence the evolution of the flock.

Furthermore, you can design your own sheep and post them into the gene pool.  If your sheep are popular, they will interbreed with the rest of the flock and produce children.  By mutating and crossing the genomes, variations of your sheep will appear and themselves evolve.

Windows users can run Apophysis and Mac users run Oxidizer.  Linux users have their choice of Apophysis under Wine or Qosmic, a native Qt application.  There's also a portable Java version and the up and coming Fr0st for all platforms.

There's a Sheep Edition of Apophysis that has exactly the right variations you'll need.

After you've got a hang of the software and are ready to share, join the genetic design email list and ask for the password for connecting to the server.

HEYY PPLZ

HI IM NEW HERE CAN U PLEASE HELP ME IM CONFUSED!!!:(

Do you use mac pc or linux

Do you use mac pc or linux

how do you know it recorded your vote?

it would be nice to get some kind of visual feedback that it got your button press and sent it in.

 

No up sheep/down sheep?

The application is supposed to animate either an upsheep (sheep with head up) for a postive vote and vice versa for a negative vote.

re: No up sheep/down sheep?

Found you can vote and had same remark. Then came here and saw someone had posted the same question I had. I do NOT get the heads up or down when I vote with the arrow keys. Leaves me to wonder if my vote has been registered. Just wondering.

You might have turned on

You might have turned on "Direct Draw" mode. You should try turning this off, it should only be necessary for very old graphics card or people with broken drivers.

The next release will show the icons even with this mode.

Hi guys

Hi I am new here, , thanks a lot for share.

Tambok


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