georgehahn / electricsheep-hd-client

A client for a electric sheep ecosystem which renders frames in HD ( e.g. 720p, 1080p, 4k, 8k)

electricsheep-hd-client

Wikipedia: Electric Sheep is a distributed computing project for animating and evolving fractal flames, which are in turn distributed to the networked computers

Originaly designed by http://www.electricsheep.org/ but rendered at low resolutions i am trying to bring the sheeps to the next generation of computer displays. This is the early alpha of a client for an electric sheep ecosystem which renders frames in HD ( e.g. 720p, 1080p, 4k, 8k). For a good example of what electric sheeps are see this youtube video

Roadmap

• System is fully operational but in an alpha state. So expect bugs.
• Currently there is no frontend where you can see the overall rendering process by the community.
• GPU rendering with CUDA is planned but this need more investigation

IRC

Join us on #electricsheephd @ freenode.net

Getting started

Debian / Ubuntu / ...

git clone https://github.com/kochd/electricsheep-hd-client.git && cd electricsheep-hd-client
apt-get install flam3 ruby bundler
bundle install
./daemon

If this results in ./daemon.rb:29:in <main>': You will need an api key. Please register at https://sheeps.triple6.org:9999/register (RuntimeError) continue with registration.

Other Linux / Unix / Posix systems

Currently i dont know. Adept from Debian / Ubuntu and contribute back so others can learn from your wisdom.

Windows

• Download this master
• Add the blob to the master
• Run daemon_windows.cmd

Registration

Register here and follow the instructions in the email. The certificated is self-signed. You should be fine ignoring the warning and process to the page.

Usage

Usage: daemon [OPTIONS]
        --server SERVER              Control server to connect to
        --apikey APIKEY              Your api key
        --debug                      Debug-mode
        --no-download                Do not download movies
        --nice NICENESS              Niceness (Higher values result in lower process priority (default: 19, max: 19))

Once your daemon is rendering frames you will gain so called credits for every frame you have rendered. Your daemon will then start to "buy" completed sequences using your gained credits and download them to $BASE_DIR/branches/$CURRENT_BRANCH/movies. Currently you will only get short sequences of 5 seconds which can be played by the play script.

Play

Just run

./play

This should read your earned movies of the current season and then play them using mpv (https://mpv.io). mpv is also available as apt package.

Setups

Take a look at the README's in setups