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Asked: 2020-04-03 02:22:19 +0800 CST

What is the screen saver showing animated physics simulations?

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A few years ago the computer lab at my university had as a screen saver on their Linux machines with animated simulations of physic laws, like foam bubbles disintegrating exponentially or little circles elastically colliding like ideal gas particles, among others. Each time the screen saver got activated you got to see a randomly provided simulation from the pool. And I think there was a small text saying where you can look up the code for the simulation.

I think this was a screen saver that came preinstalled with the Linux distribution, but I can't find it anywhere. Can anyone tell where I can download it?

screensaver animations

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    I suggested xscreensaver which contains loads of options, some are science based (molecules, space..) with more available optionally.

    Refer https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&searchon=names&keywords=xscreensaver

    xscreensaver was already installed with my system (lubuntu), but can be added with sudo apt install xscreensaver if your release/flavor doesn't include it by default.

    You may wish to disable your own screensaver (which can vary on flavor/release).enter image description here, or add additional optional packages which increase your available choices.

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