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From: mcgredo@prism.cs.orst.edu (Don McGregor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: automatic screen dimming
Keywords: 1.0 screen dimming saver
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Date: 1 Dec 90 04:55:15 GMT
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In article <1001@nada.cs.utexas.edu> garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) writes:
>
>Seriously, if an application like ScreenSaver can be written (that
>works at least in a partial sense of the word), it shouldn't be too
>difficult to make the degree of automatic dimming that already
>occurs be adjustable.
>
Here's a project for you NeXTDimension hackers:  All those screensavers
on the Mac or PC that put animated fish on the screen.  Wouldn't it
be way hep to get a _video_ of fish swimming around in your monitor?
Broadcast quality? With discreet sound effects?

Small market, neato product.

Don McGregor             | "I too seek the light, so long as it tastes  
mcgredo@prism.cs.orst.edu|  great and is not too filling."