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I hope someone can update the xscreensaver code with this one.


Yeah seriously it looks so much better than GLMatrix.


I'm open to contributing it. It'd save me the trouble of making and maintaining screensavers myself, which is a very common request. The struggle to support a Mac screensaver for more than a few years at a time has already swallowed a great Matrix project before, mathew's RedPill ( https://github.com/lpar/RedPill ).

One important matter I haven't investigated yet is what constraints there are on GL in xscreensaver as a whole. My project is basically a shader sandwich, but there are alternative approaches a port can take if that's untenable.

I also sincerely like jwz's cheeky competitiveness with other screensaver authors— when xscreensaver 4.11 was released, he captioned it, "Watch as GLMatrix makes RedPill scream for mercy." If I port to xscreensaver I'll make sure to continue the tradition.


GLMatrix aged gracefully. It has been around for a while and I still use it.

This one looks great and it would be great to see an updated version.




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