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Beautiful Geometry is rather unusual as it really is a screen-saver, not a screen-burner !!!
It generates and displays over 2000 different geometric curves in random order. As the individual points of the curves are displayed, the colour varies gradually and this looks best in high colour or better.
There are eight different shapes that can be selected for the curve display, and these can be optionally zoomed, and/or rotated, clockwise or anti-clockwise. Select several shapes, to randomly select one of them for each curve.
With the number of curves and all of the options combined, there are well over four million (!) possible displays and then you can start to vary the object size and speed. Although there are so many possibilities, I have provided just a few screen shots to give an idea of the program.
The new version (2.0) has several enhancements over the version 1.x - it has been fully re-structured and has a new tabbed dialog for the configuration, no annoying nag screens / pop-ups and more display options.
However, the biggest enhancement is in the definition of hotkeys. Many users have wanted to see some of the images for a longer time period and even more have wanted to save them to hard-disk. Up until now, this has not been possible, because screen-savers stop running when the user does something. Well, this is now possible. You can define a hotkey to pause the image generation (indefinitely) and you can define a hotkey to save the current screen image to the directory of your choice. What really makes this interesting is that, even though this is a screen-saver, having pressed one of the defined hotkeys, the program then carries on as if no keys had been pressed !!
By the way, ZDNet gave the previous version of this program a 4 star rating - click here to read the review ...
The current version is 2.0 and program registration is $10 or equivalent (see program documentation for details).
Online registration is also available at no extra cost - follow one of the links at the bottom of the page.
Click here for some screen shots
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