Re: Programs with colourful, moving, images???

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Alex Bartok wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jan Minar [mailto:Jan.Minar@seznam.cz]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:10 PM
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: Programs with colourful, moving, images???
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:15:49PM +0100, Iwan van der Kleyn wrote:
> >
> > > My three month old daughter loves to watch glxgears running maximized on
> > > one of my monitors while I work at the other. The big, revolving and
> >
> > Won't this ruin her vision?  My sister wouldn't allow her 8-months-old
> > to watch TV -- or is this just another urban legend?
>
>
> #1 - http://www.optometrists.bc.ca/news/03-10-07.php
>
>
>
> > > colourful wheels seem to attrect her attention like a  magnet.  So
> > > therefore my question. Are there any other programs, demos like
> > > glxgears, which display some sort of big, animated figures??

  what about other xscreensaver hacks?

  there used to be fairly big demo scene for personal computers 
(Amigas, PCs etc.) - I've even seen some demos for X so if you search 
for it you might find some nice eye-candy demos (not sure how to best 
search for it but simlpy googlin for demo scene turned out few relevant 
links).

	erik