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Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS
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Re: Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS
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The Apple TV 4k screensavers (city flyovers filmed in slow motion with a drone) are beautiful and I always end up staring at the screen for a while. https://youtu.be/lbj9kihTwcc
That's a horribly outdated version linked in that video sadly, and that one no longer runs on recent macOS (because it's not notarized). Just in case anyone wants to try it, please grab latest build here instead : https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial/releases Or if you want an installer with auto updates, get it here : https://aerialscreensaver.github.io Latest betas include Apple Music/Spotify integration, Speed con…
Wow! Is there anything similar that you know of for Android TV? I would love to have something like this over the stock photo slideshow.
Re: Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS
#103The first thing I tried to do is drag the title bar of that "window".
Re: Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a horribly outdated version linked in that video sadly, and that one no longer runs on recent macOS (because it's not notarized). Just in case anyone wants to try it, please grab latest build here instead : https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial/releases Or if you want an installer with auto updates, get it here : https://aerialscreensaver.github.io Latest betas include Apple Music/Spotify integration, Speed con…
Wow! Is there anything similar that you know of for Android TV? I would love to have something like this over the stock photo slideshow.
I only make the mac version, but I've seen this "port" for Android TV.
No guarantees from me that it's any good : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codingbuff...
It's open source too, according to the description, it streams and doesn't cache videos and apparently it handles 4K HDR. If data usage is a concern to you, be aware that some videos are close to 1 GB.
Re: Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS
#105Beautiful. The nostalgia hit me very hard with this. I remember in the original version you had all sorts of options, and could even combine screensavers. For people who may not remember: screensavers used to be a neccessity as old CRT tubes would 'burn in' an image if they held it static for too long - leaving a shadow of the static image permanently. Screensavers kicked in after a few minutes and displayed somethin…
I can hear the 8-bit flapping sounds in my head, even though I haven't heard them in at least 2 decades.
Re: Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS
#106Beautiful. The nostalgia hit me very hard with this. I remember in the original version you had all sorts of options, and could even combine screensavers. For people who may not remember: screensavers used to be a neccessity as old CRT tubes would 'burn in' an image if they held it static for too long - leaving a shadow of the static image permanently. Screensavers kicked in after a few minutes and displayed somethin…
Oooh now let's talk about PointCast. Who remembers when the future of the Internet was push ? https://www.wired.com/1997/03/ff-push/
Windows users might remember Active Desktop in the context of "push". Oh, those were the days.
Re: Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS
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Both. The internet was full of early adopter, tech enthusiast types. You'd certainly pickup on this. Maybe a bit of the magic was your youth, but the tech was new and magical to everyone. Every article I read back then was written by a real person about something they cared about. Now it feels like every search result is just 100 pages of AI generated, generic content used to drive clicks to the site. And what conten…
Exactly. When it was young, the internet was about communication. Now it is about money and all the tackiness that comes with it.
Yes! And learning, and experimentation, and *sharing*, as compared now to *hoarding*.
Re: Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS
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Screensavers are a thing again on modern TV because OLEDs have a pretty serious burn-in problem apparently. Not much creativity there, probably because it should not be annoying, so it's stuff like art galleries or subtle fireworks effects that also 'train' the pixels. Best screensaver I used to have was the BSOD one from xscreensaver, so many people fell for it. Second best is the nyan cat screensaver. Currently hav…
The Apple TV 4k screensavers (city flyovers filmed in slow motion with a drone) are beautiful and I always end up staring at the screen for a while. https://youtu.be/lbj9kihTwcc
Part of the reason these are so captivating is that they are slowed down instead of real time. This gives them an other-worldly quality where you can see extreme detail but in a different motion than you would normally see it.
Re: Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Apple TV 4k screensavers (city flyovers filmed in slow motion with a drone) are beautiful and I always end up staring at the screen for a while. https://youtu.be/lbj9kihTwcc
Part of the reason these are so captivating is that they are slowed down instead of real time. This gives them an other-worldly quality where you can see extreme detail but in a different motion than you would normally see it.
The other reason is that you have to have biggest-company-in-the-world-sized connections (and pocketbook) to get permission to run a 120fps 8k drone over an active LAX.
Such a subtle huge flex.
Re: Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Apple TV 4k screensavers (city flyovers filmed in slow motion with a drone) are beautiful and I always end up staring at the screen for a while. https://youtu.be/lbj9kihTwcc
Part of the reason these are so captivating is that they are slowed down instead of real time. This gives them an other-worldly quality where you can see extreme detail but in a different motion than you would normally see it.
Many of the cityscape ones I don't believe are slowed down, at least the ones I have seen. If you watch the movement of traffic it appears to be moving at normal speeds. Even the orbital ones appear to be real-time.
The otherworldliness of the video seems to come more from the smoothness of the motion and the uncommon perspective. Because many of the scenes are captured with drones instead of helicopters or airplanes they have a literal bird's perspective in terms of velocity and altitude.