In the past, Windows screensavers included '3D pipes' where pipes grow and grow, '3D flying objects' where objects fly around the screen, '3D mazes' where maze spaces expand, and '3D text' where a ...

Are screensavers art? If they are, one of the most iconic Windows screensavers, 3D Pipes, only existed because of an internal Windows contest to show off OpenGL support to Windows NT. Chen’s ...

In Windows XP, there's a list of several default screensavers to choose from. One of these is the 3D flying objects screensaver. When you're at the office, every personal touch you add to your ...

[Helios Labs] recently published version two of their 3D printed fish feeder. The system is designed to feed their fish twice a day. The design consists of nine separate STL files and can be ...

There was a time when screensavers truly saved screens ... And in the case of the original Windows options like 3D pipes, they did more than just protect computer screens. During the era of ...

Have you ever wondered where Windows' classic 3D Pipes screensaver (or 3D Maze) originated? On June 11, Microsoft developer Raymond Chen dropped a dev blog detailing how the 3D Pipes screensaver ...

The contest rules were simple: each team would create their most dazzling 3D screensaver with a company-wide vote deciding the winner. The winning screensaver would make it into the final Windows ...

Thank you for your interest in PC version of the Tesla screensaver. Before you download the screensaver (link is at the bottom the screen), please read the ...

In this post, we will see how you can create a shortcut to launch your favorite screensaver in Windows 11/10. To launch your favorite screensaver in a click, you can create its shortcut on your ...

The humble screensaver was first introduced on computers to minimize the risk of burn-in on the display–where static images would be ‘burned’ into the screen if nothing moved for an extended ...

2. Click “Screen Saver” at the bottom-right corner of the window. 3. Select the desired screen saver from the drop-down menu and indicate a “wait” time in minutes. The screensaver will ...

Chen’s latest tale recounts how 3D Pipes, the classic screensaver came to be: Microsoft wanted to show off OpenGL within Windows NT 3.5, but wanted a way to do it that wasn’t an ad. (This was ...