Hey,

So I was thinking about MW@H and it seems like it would be the prime candidate for a low resource visual interface.

SETI is an example of a competing project with something similar. It has a display that can be shown on demand as well as used as a screen saver.

It would seem that MW@H would be even better to have a visualizer than SETI.

Perhaps a screen saver where we are seeing the MW galaxy forming as the computer is seeing it, or something similar?...

Perhaps something like what is shown here ( http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=2491 ) except rather than a sim of them colliding it could be a visual representation of whatever the computer is simulating about the MW galaxy at the time...

Are there any other ideas for something like this, or is this something that people would be interested in?...

I know that I would be willing to help with this if you guys want it (but im not sure what help I could be, im not a programmer or anything lol).

-Hawkens

Hello,

I thought that will be in mind of the admins. Look here: http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=1554#36490

Nowi

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thanks for the link. After skimming through the beginning of that thread it looks like the thing most are concerned about would be the impact that a visualizer would have on GPU computing.

I know that I use one of my GPUs for MW@H and will run the SETI visualizer as my screen saver/background.

I have had not issues with this, nor any discernible decrease in computational power of my system. This is on a weaker system by modern standards, and thus would reason that more powerful systems would have even less of an impact.

I know that I use one of my GPUs for MW@H and will run the SETI visualizer as my screen saver/background.

I have had not issues with this, nor any discernible decrease in computational power of my system.

Than maybe you should try the Seti optimized apps, than you'll see the difference.

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Someone last year was working on a screensaver but then they disappeared. A few weeks ago I did some work on an ugly-ish nbody screensaver that I might put out at some point, though it's a low priority right now. It's missing about 2 things I think it needs before people can use it.