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Here is a Screen Saver I cooked up with Quartz Composer. If I have a Mac running Tiger and an iSight or webcam, I can put myself in outer space!

How the Screen Saver works: Dark colors are transparent, allowing space to show through. Bright colors will be opaque. So, turn off the lights and spotlight yourself somehow and you will be walking around in space in no time!

Download the Screen Saver here.

Double click the .zip archive to unzip the two files needed to run the screen saver: outerspace.qtz and hst15_night_sky2.mp4. Place these two files in the /Library/Screen Savers/ folder .

Open System Preferences and select Displays. Select 720×480 (stretched). Your screen resolution will shrink down to the size needed to display the video correctly. Now, click Show All and Select Desktop and Screen Saver. Click the Screen Saver tab. Select outerspace from the list of screen savers.

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Written by Steve Blue
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