StonerviewW32 is a very straight port of StonerView by Andrew Plotkin available for Linux and Mac to the win32 Platform.
The original StonerView is copyright 1998-2001 by Andrew Plotkin (erkyrath@eblong.com) http://www.eblong.com/zarf/stonerview.html"
Stonerview itself is based on ideas of Electropaint (tm) by Silicon Graphics which was shipped with the Iris Indigo machines (and maybe it is still shipped with newer SGI machines - I don't know).
There is another nice screensaver explicitly inspired by electropaint(tm): planestate by Joakim Eriksson.
Download: StonerViewW32 binary
Download: StonerViewW32 source
Many thanks go to Rachel Grey (lemming@alum.mit.edu) for her tutorial on how to write a windows openGL screensaver (http://www.cityintherain.com/howtoscr.html). Parts of her source code are in here. Another thank you goes to Jeff Molofee (http://nehe.gamedev.net)for the openGL tutorial bringing me right to the point.
Electropaint is a US Trademark of Tristram Visual, www.tristram.com
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
INSTALLATION
In the binary bundle you'll find a file named 'StonerViewW23.scr'. Copy this
file to where all the screensavers reside (usually something like C:\WINDOWS\system32).
After that you should be able to choose 'StonerViewW32' in the list of screensavers.
Compatibility issues:
- Tested on a WinXP home SP1 (inclusive dual head setup)
- Works on Win2k as well.
The settings dialog offers an option for selecting rendering to a bitmap. This is based on
an article in the MS knowledge base concerning a bug in the general implemention of OpenGL
shipped with 2k and xp. So if you are experiencieng some kind of flickering - try this option!
It will however slow the screensaver down.
Revision History
02/03/2003 V1.2 - more options
- do not use rendering to bitmap if not configured
01/26/2003 V1.1 added a configuration dialog and some options
01/25/2003 V1.0 the basic port of StonerView works
