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The Helios screensaver from Really Slick Screensavers.
Link: http://www.reallyslick.com/
One of the 11 screensavers currently available from reallyslick.com, Helios makes use of attraction/repulsion particle effects and smooth implicit surfaces to achieve what you see here.
First made for Windows, it has been ported to Mac OS and several Linux distros IIRC.
Personally, I found than having 3000 particles moving in a very organized pattern on-screen rather hypnotic, and I prefer this over the 'Solar Winds' screensaver also from Really Slick.
Ran on an old laptop with these specs:
- Pentium M 740 1.73GHz w/ 533MHz FSB
- 2GB DDR2 SDRAM @ 533MHz
- ATI Mobility Radeon X700 Omega 4.8.442 @ 1280x800 32-bit colour
- 160GB Samsung HM160HC IDE HDD
- Windows XP Service Pack 3
Minimal CPU occupation, using about only 15% CPU power on the average on my laptop.
Recorded using FRAPS (Since Helios uses frame buffering, allowing FRAPS to capture it)
BGM is 'Water Nursery' from 'The Forest Show'.