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Martin,

I remember some time back the Fedora community tried a concept where the  
wallpaper changed to the time of day. There was much excitement about the  
proposal but I don't believe it stuck for more than one release. You could  
ping Mairin Duffy to discover the details.
What I found in my testing of svg wallpapers is 1) they look great, 2)  
complex images take a long time to load. :/
The solution to the load time may be compression but I don't know how that  
affects your proposal.
John

On Sep 5, 2010 1:07am, Martin Owens <doctormo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 08:25 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> > Hey, that's very cool.


> It's a cool idea and it got a good response from the crowd.


> > Something I wanted us to try was the idea of "convergence days", where
> > we'd publish a data file quietly which would say "on such and such a
> > date, try to be as close to this as possible", specifying the position
> > and parameters of the various effects / lights / features. That way,
> > we'd have weeks of divergence, then a "rush to convergence" over say 5
> > days, so on a particular day everyone's desktop looks the same again.


> Well you know how gullible I am for making things for free ;-), here you
> go your feature request has been granted:


> http://doctormo.org/2010/09/04/whoa-wheres-it-going/


> > I thought of using constellations (playing again with "light") as
> > inspiration, so you could have a "convergence day" like this:


> The generate-plot.py script takes an svg input, so you dig out the svg
> file and open in inkscape, enter the gen group (important!) and move
> around each of the elements, rotate, skew your heart out until you have
> your pattern. Save and then run through the plot generator and direct
> output to plot.txt or some such.


> $ generate-plot.py my-awesome-convergence.svg 2010-09-10 5 > plot.txt


> That's from the 10th September converge for 5 days. It's progressive
> convergence maths means if you execute it only on the last day it'll
> move 100% of the way.


> If this was packaged it'd go into a standard dir in usr share and be
> updated by an updated package.


> $ nudge-wallpaper.py wallpaper.svg plot.txt


> Also code is published at
> lp:~doctormo/doctormo-random/genetic-wallpapers and patches are welcome.


> Best Regards, Martin Owens






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