What Computers See When They Dream

If you’re sitting at your desk wondering how you’re going to make it through the day, why not take a minute and watch these fractal animations from the Electric Sheep project. (“Electric Sheep is a collaborative abstract artwork founded by Scott Draves. It’s run by thousands of people all over the world, and can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers ‘sleep,’ the Electric Sheep comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as “sheep.” The result is a collective ‘android dream,’ an homage to Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.”) I mean, they’re not going to give you any ideas on how to make it to 5 PM, but they’re pretty cool and kind of soothing, and sometimes that helps.