Posted in Coding

Somehow I have a weak spot for screen savers, for writing screen savers that is. The combination of programming, maths, and beauty is just very appealing to me. So, when Thoughtworks went through the brand refresh last summer I took that as an invitation to write a new company screen saver. (I had written the previous ones, too.) The new screen saver animates one of the illustrations that were created as part of the brand refresh.

It is written in Swift but this time I didn't go for the low-level Metal graphics APIs. Instead, I used a higher-level abstraction (CALayers) that make the code simple while still providing decent performance. The code is open source and available on Github here.