High Frontier Screen Savers

These screen savers all have moving elements, three backgrounds, and (mutable) music.

The following three screen savers are based on artwork commissioned for the original NASA studies on space settlements. My High Frontier desktop theme contains a slideshow-type screen saver. But these screen savers are my attempt to bring new life to these oft-viewed works of art by adding motion and animation.

The following four screen savers feature music by Derek Wadsworth.

Stanford Torus

Space pods maneuver to help assemble a Stanford Torus space habitat; a 6-spoked rotating wheel over a mile in diameter. Centrifugal force substitutes for gravity, and mirrors reflect sunlight into the interior, creating an Earthlike environment for the inhabitants.

High Frontier

This screen saver depicts an average workday on the high frontier. A mass-driver reaction tug pushes a chunk of an asteroid to an ore processor, while a Bernal Sphere, home to 10,000 space workers and their families, orbits nearby. A Solar Power Satellite capable of beaming electrical power to Earth nears completion. In the background, we see a captured asteroid, and Island Two and Island Three habitats.

Island Three

Near the spin axis of a rotating space habitat, one's weight would decline toward zero. Thus, we might share the skies with the birds. Here we see a space settler enjoying man-powered flight. The backdrop is an Island One or "Bernal Sphere" habitat, then later Island Three, a cylinder 20 miles long and 4 miles in diameter.

Millennial Project

This screen saver depicts space settlement of the Millennial Project variety (see the Living Universe Foundation). Astronauts and space pods work around a Marshall Savage-designed nested bubble orbital habitat. Later, the dead lunar surface is enlivened by the addition of domed biospheres.

L5 - First City in Space

This screen saver is based on the IMAX movie which is now available on DVD.  More information

Spacewalkers

You might find this little screen saver with spacewalking astronauts, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station cute.