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This is extremely cool! I wonder how much work it would be to bundle it up into an XScreenSaver-compatible binary.

Edit: It looks like running it locally on X11 is trivial, so this should be easy to do. I'm trying to hack it together now :-)

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That would be great. Another awesome screensaver is called substrate and included in the set 1) by Jamie Zawinski ( among the founders of Netscape and Mozilla ).

1) https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/

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[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25801699

That would be awesome :)

Looks like it won't work out of the box, unfortunately, since {macro,mini}quad doesn't support a custom X11 parent window :-(

But I've opened an issue upstream to track functionality in the renderer that would allow this[1].

[1]: https://github.com/not-fl3/miniquad/issues/250

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