This is a project written during an internal hack day at 500px. The goal was to make a screen saver for OS X which displayed the 10 most recent photos in Editors Choice with a Ken Burns effect.
This project uses two default images. The first is Towering Fog taken downtown Toronto. The second is a long-exposure shot of star trails taken from the International Space Station.
There are a few issues right now.
- The project requires your user to be shortnamed "ash" to build.
- The project abuses how screensavers are supposed to be written on OS X.
- The effect used isn't really the "Ken Burns" effect, as it displays edges of photos. This needs to be addressed.
- Sometimes the animation stutters (see point 2).
But I'm fairly happy with it for a few hours work on my first ever screen saver project. Also probably my last, since writing these is hard. (Ever tried to debug a screen saver? Don't.)