3d screen savers

A screen saver is a computer program intended to cover or fill the computer screen when it is not intervened by the user.

From time to time, the evolvement of 3d screen savers were stupendous in terms of objectives, that today entertainment or security reasons are highlighted for the reasons behind why to use screen savers.

Nobody bothers to dig deeper, to identify the underlying architecture of 3d screen savers. It has to be understood, that a screen saver is designed with the assistance of numerous programming languages and graphical user interfaces or GUIs.

Most of the screen savers are obliged either to the procedural oriented language, C, or the object oriented language C++. Apart from these, several GUIs, Open GL, directX etc are exploited to release a good 3d screen saver.

What makes the 3d screen saver to be displayed in the monitor is the interaction of operating system with the screen saver.

When any key of the keyboard is pressed, or if the mouse gets shifted, a message is passed from the operating system to the screen saver to pull itself back.

It has already been said that, 3d screen savers are nowadays been used for security and entertainment purposes .Many screen savers implement security measures by asking the password of the user before logging again to work, after a while.

Thinking the other way around, 3d screen savers can add up the power wastage issues, since the system is not logged off when screen savers are activated.

An entertainment wise thinking of 3d screen savers suggests the fact that, a screen saver could even display real time events or pictures on the screen.

Mainly, the entertainment aspect of 3d screen savers are most exploited for promotional things. Still, safety issues are not that far away from 3d screen savers.

Cases were reported that, screen savers on earlier versions of Microsoft Windows were potentially dangerous, since the chances were high to get the viruses installed ,when the programs were run every time.



Keywords: 3d screen savers, computer screen ,numerous programming languages, graphical user interfaces , GUIs,oriented language, C, oriented language C++