[noduerme]

When I was a kid in the 90s learning to program, writing screen savers was one of the best ways to demo your "skills". Also just something creative to do when you didn't really have a project in mind. I still think they're an underappreciated art form, and it's kind of disappointing that OSX only ships with a couple really basic ones. Apple should bundle in all the AfterDark modules (there were several releases).

There was also an amazing set of screensavers which I don't remember the name of, but one of the set was called 'kaos', and a lot of them were based on fractals. If anyone recalls the name of that software...

[edit] I found it! DarkSide of the Mac by Tom Dowdy. Brilliant. http://poubelle.com/DarkSideDocs.html

[mistrial9]

RIP Tom Dowdy

[JKCalhoun]

Tom was a good guy.

[noduerme]

I knew Tom Dowdy's name as a 14 year old kid in the early 90s; from DarkSide, which was an important inspiration to me trying to write graphics demos at the time, and I knew I'd seen his name in Apple credits. I've just been reading today how admired and loved he was, and I fell deep into his journals from the culinary academy, and his over-the-top method of making cassoulet, which is my favorite dish on the planet and seems like it was one of his. Many years later, my ex and I also talked about quitting the racket and going to culinary school, but I didn't have the guts. He sounds like an extraordinary fellow, and his work left an impression in my brain. I got DarkSide running on macintosh.js today and took a screenshot of his lovely "Kaos" algorithm, which builds these abstract works over time; I remember watching it for hours on a Mac II.

https://ibb.co/ZTntfD5