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Two screen savers for macOS that show ThoughtWorks glyphs dancing around.

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Dancing Glyphs Screen Saver

This is work-in-progress. Not everything may work as expected.

Dancing Glyphs

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A while ago, while reading Cixin Liu's excellent novel The Three-Body Problem, I saw a shape in our brand asset library that had three of the typical ThoughtWorks glyphs superimposed, and somehow I thought, what if those three glyphs were dancing around each other like the suns in the novel? Wouldn't that make a great screen saver?

Glyph Wave

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At some point when implementing the Dancing Glyphs saver I switched to the Metal 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.