About

Aquarius is an OpenGL™ based Windows™ screensaver that displays images, video and Web pages on a variety of moving objects. Many different media formats are supported including, most recently, images from the photo sharing Web site Flickr™. The media can be stored on your computer or streamed in from the Internet. Aquarius comes with a list of built in media to try and it's really easy to add your own.

Shots of Aquarius in action showing a variety of media formats on different objects.

The media formats that are recognized include:

• Web pages - almost anything that Internet Explorer™ can display.
• QuickTime™ (typically MOV files) - virtually anything that the QuickTime™ Player can display including movies, QTVR files and streaming formats via the RTSP protocol.
• Windows Media™ formats supported by your system (typically AVI, WMV, ASF files) and including streaming formats.
• MPEG 1 & 2 movies (typically MPG, MPEG files).
• Flash™ movies (typically SWF files) indirectly via QuickTime™.
• Various image formats (typically GIF, BMP, JPG, PNG files).
• Flickr™ images including support for selecting images based on search tag, username, group and "interestingness".

The objects that you can use to display the media include:

• Cunningly complex grid - an infinite grid through which you tumble endlessly. Mesmerizing!
• Strangely simple cube - a single large cube that bounces around the screen. Works best with media you might want to read such as a news Web site.
• Wildly waving flag - flutters gently in the wind - looks great with a QuickTime™ movie on it!

If you'd like to see it in action for yourself, go to the download page and grab a copy. If you like it then please consider purchasing a licence.