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

Originally 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

Road map

• Currently there is no front end where you can see the overall rendering process by the community.
• GPU rendering with CUDA is planned but this need more investigation (Currently an experimental implementation exists)
• Voting system for flames
• Handle replacement of bad flames when they are already rendered
• Submit system for new flames
• Non linear mutation paths

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 do not know. Adept from Debian / Ubuntu and contribute back so others can learn from your wisdom.

Windows

Download an install the latest release and follow the steps for your registration to get your apikey.

If you want the latest development version Install using the installer and replace every existing file in the installation folder with the content of the latest master. This usually isn't needed as we package a new installer whenever this should be the case.

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 - Default: read from ./api.key file
        --nd, --no-download          Do not download movies
        --np, --no-progress          Hide progress and ETA - This will speed up rendering a bit
    -k, --keep-frames                Do not delete rendered frames after upload
        --nice NICENESS              Niceness (Higher values result in lower process priority (default: 19, max: 19))
        --gpu                        Use GPU renderer (Fractorium - http://fractorium.com/)
        --gpu-devices [Device-Ids]   Use device(s) with given ids e.g.: '2,3'. Use --gpu-list-devices to get a list of your available devices.
        --gpu-list-devices           Returns a list of your installed OpenCL devices
        --gpu-priority               Set GPU render priority (1: lowest, 99: highest)
        --insecure                   Ignore ssl certificate errors
        --debug                      Debug-mode

(This list might be outdated. See the 'real' --help of the daemon)

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 and included in the windows installer.

Setups

Take a look at the README's in setups for advanced setups

Questions?

• FAQ
• Wiki
• IRC Chat
• Feel free to submit any question