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# ThoughtWorks Glyph Screen Savers

*This is work-in-progress. Dancing Glyphs works as intended. Glyph Wave does not have settings yet and the circle animation has a hard-coded 16:9 aspect ratio.*
*This is work-in-progress. Dancing Glyphs works as intended. Glyph Wave has a hard-coded 16:9 aspect ratio.*


## Dancing Glyphs
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![glyph-wave-sample](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/954026/19091623/aa2b4db4-8a83-11e6-81e8-d356d4b09305.gif)

At some point when implementing the Dancing Glyphs saver I switched to the Metal API to get the best possible performance while using as little power as possible. I then realised that with Metal I could render hundreds of glyphs, and so I explored different animations. Glyph Wave is the result of this. There are actually two versions of the wave, the linear one shown above and a circular one. Currently, the saver selects one by random when it starts.
At some point when implementing the Dancing Glyphs saver I switched to the Metal API to get the best possible performance while using as little power as possible. I then realised that with Metal I could render hundreds of glyphs, and so I explored different animations. Glyph Wave is the result of this. There are actually two versions of the wave, the linear one shown above and a circular one. By default, the saver selects one by random when it starts.


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