any existing collidoscope program thing...

[papoj1]

i wonder if there is some kind of "EyeToy" for PC webcams or some kind of interactive screensaver of a collidoscope that exists.

[J-Mac]

Do you mean kaleidoscope, by any chance?  If so, try Google - it's your friend!

In the meantime, here's a few:

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/Kaleido3.html
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/Kaleido2.html
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/Kaleido.html

Jim

[CWuestefeld]

OHH!!

I saw "collido..." and thought "collliding things", like that desktop toy with hanging balls that clack-clack back-and-forth. Here's the best picture I can find (not a very good picture, but the cover of a very good album):


A 3-D animation of this would be a pretty cool screen saver.

[J-Mac]

Maybe he did mean that.  I couldn't "connect" the word with anything, but if you say it, it does sound a little like "kaleidoscope".

Who knows?!

j-

[mouser]

CWuestefeld's comments made me think how cool it would be to see a list of known dynamic physics-based screensavers.

[CWuestefeld]

Yes, I'd like to see a list like that. A quick Google search yields these free ones:

• Gravity Screensaver - http://www.nullterminator.net/gravity.html
• Galaxy Collision Screensaver - http://www.sevenravens.com/landsailing/ (near the bottom of the page)

[CWuestefeld]

I think I found it (I can't try it here because VMWare doesn't support OpenGL).

The toy is called "Newton's Cradle" and someone did make a screensaver out of it:
http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~sandr071/fun.html

[Edvard]

To reply to the original thread...

Unlike many crude screensavers which are inaccurately described as "kaleidoscopic," my screensavers are true kaleidoscope simulators: They use a two mirror "mandala" reflection system, much like the best fine-art kaleidoscopes, and they are entrancing and mesmerizing!

http://www.krazydad.com/windows_freebies.php

Metascope is shareware and is currently unable to grab Google images, but the rest are free!

Very nice... 

[Edvard]

On the other hand, I've noticed a lot of X screensavers are based on Physics modeling. simulations of Colliding Galaxies, Lorenz attractors, Descartes Circle theorem demos, all kinds of stuff.
http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/screenshots/

[papoj1]

indeed, its called a kaleidoscope and...the 4 balls colliding @ each other i believe r called Newton's Cradle