Meditation 1.0

          Overall: Exquisite clouds of glory.  
Impact: *****            
Ease of use: *****                 
Stability: *****               
Configurability: ***                       
Screensaver: Yes.                  
Sound response: No.                      
Platforms: Windows.           
Price: Free.          
Zip file size: 91K.                    

Home: www.axogon.com

Those Russians. It must have something to do with the long cold winter nights. First they came up with Tetris, a simple little game that almost brought the West to its knees when the Cold War was still on.

Now, Alexei Vetchinin and Alexei Galakhov have cast a tiny screensaver out into the world, for free, called Axogon Meditation. Its 91K download size is proof that size doesn't matter.

Using carefully selected palatttes, Meditation puts up a slowly and continuously shifting display of mostly cloudlike forms. In terms of sheer, evanescent beauty, it's the best we've seen.

The program has minimal configurability. You can vary the speed, and you can put the display into a quadrant pattern, which gives you a center point to stare at if you really want to use it for meditation.

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