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Planetary News: SETI (2004)

SETI@home's New Look

By Amir Alexander
1 July 2004

As of June 22, 2004, SETI@home is no longer the stand-alone project that we all know and love. It is, instead, the founding member of the new BOINC family of distributed computing projects.

With the change in platform also comes a change in SETI@home's look. While the unmistakable SETI@home look of the screen saver is generally preserved, BOINC are able to choose between a variety of looks. As a BOINC user you can decide on the color scheme of the display, add a logo of your user group, control the pace of the display, and even incorporate an image of your own choosing.

The images below give a general foretaste of what the different varieties of the new SETI@home screensaver will look like. Click on any of them to view a brief AVI movie of the screensaver in action. Keep in mind, however, that these are only samples: when you run the new BOINC SETI@home on your own PC, it is up to you to configure the display, and decide what the SETI@home screensaver will look like on your computer.