Erlkönig: glsperm

GLsperm

Appearing in retrospect to be a completely crazed reimplementation of the worm screensaver to OpenGL, this program sports about 100 little wrigglers, some equipped with illuminating antennae that activate (non-simultaneously) during dusk and deactivate during dawn in the internal, one-minute long solar cycle. Up to 8 light sources are used at once, with very nice glow halos around each. The effect is particularly profound in the darkest period, when only those critters within the spheres of illumination are easily visible.

(initial implementation 2002-06-04 - 2002-06-07

Screenshots (at 5 second intervals)