Spiral Galaxy M100

Overview

I've been deeply fascinated by the starry night sky since I was a child. Not sure if this interest is partly due to my given name, which means UNIVERSE in Chinese. Anyway, I dreamed about becoming a great astronomer or physicist to investigate the great puzzles in nature. This didn't happen. Instead, I've become a programmer. The PBS show "Monster of the Milky Way" has reawakened my curiosities. So I began to code this screen saver to partially realize my childhood dreams.

I'm also inspired by Vincent van Gogh and his painting "The Starry Night". A great artist with a tragic ending:-( Consider this screen saver as my 3D remake of his "Starry Night":-)

All the galaxy images are based on the photos from NASA's web site "Astronomy Picture of the Day".

Main features are:

• 7 different shapes of galaxies.
• 4 different colors.
• 11 different background galaxy images.
• Flying 3D star fields.
• Flying 3D Text that can also rotate in X, Y, Z directions.

Settings

Open the control panel display, choose "YZGalaxy v1.11" from the screen saver list. You can adjust the star numbers in the setting. Lower it down if your PC runs slow. You can turn on/off the background image. You can adjust the cycle length of the background image change. You can adjust the galaxy rotation speed. You can adjust the galaxy travel speed. You can turn on/off the flying 3D text. You can change the content of the flying 3D text to anything you like. You can turn on/off the rotation of the flying 3D text.