Manifestations of Einstein                                             (c) 1994

Sitting in class, learning about the wonders of Einstein's theories of
relativity, I, as most students do, let my mind wander.  I was staring at the
page of my physics book where a really good picture of Einstein was painted
by F. Szasz in 1973, and had an idea -- why not make an Einstein screen-saver?
F. Szasz is an extremely talented individual, for his work is incredible.

The original painting did not look like the Einstein presented in this
demo -- I wilded up the hair a bit, and added some unique coloring.  I call
this my, "Einstein moving at the speed of light" picture.  This saver features 5
positions of that same picture, along with an animation of one of his best
quotes ever, "Imagination is more important than knowledge."  This is very
important to people like me who cannot pass their math-classes, and are
told by those professors who teach it to change my major from Computer-Science
to Art because "you can't do math."  Well, neither could Einstein.  They told
him he would never amount to anything at all.  Professors just never learn, eh?


Disclaimer:
  If this demo does anything whatsoever to either destroy, or promote the
  destruction of your computer, I am not responsible.  This is a simple
  program (hence Freeware), but not entirely tested (I have as much time as you
  do).  It doesn't screw anything up on my computer after 5 hours running, so
  everything should be fun, not pain.


Viruses:
  Before you run this program, CHECK FOR VIRUSES.  This is something you don't
  hear often in readme texts, but it is important.  Don't get burned by a
  virus that hitched itself to this program.  I got burned once, and it isn't
  pleasant at all.  Of course, that was on the Amiga, but they are awfully
  prevalent on the IBM.  The only way to truly get rid of them is to be
  wary of them!


Important:
  This program accesses the disk for every picture.  Some pictures are
  compressed (the animation and the easter-egg pictures).  This may cause
  undue wear to your hard-drive if you set the delay too low.  Running this
  with a disk-caching program is suggested.  It was impossible to put all
  of these images into the memory (some do not even compress).  If I were
  to have put everything into the memory, it wouldn't have so much stuff.


Options and Navigation:
  There are a few ways you can control this demonstration.  If you want to
  exclude the ending screen, or change the delay time, or exclude the animation,
  use these options:


           /e           Exclude the ending screen.  This also causes the
                        demo to exit very quickly instead of fade-out.  Most
                        practical option for a screen-saver effect.

           /a           Exclude the animation.  The animation loads off the
                        disk for each frame.  This will decrease disk-access
                        over long periods of time, and will cause only
                        Einstein himself to appear.

           /d=<delay>   Set the delay between the screens in seconds.  It is
                        set to 60 seconds by default.  The animation starts and
                        finishes at the same time always.


I hope you enjoy this screen-saver.  It is Freeware (there is not enough effort
put into it to really justify registering it as Shareware).  It is the result
of the need for a change in screen-savers.  Also, I just thought it might
be neat to do.

Distribute it to your friends!  I just ask one thing:

                KEEP THIS TEXT FILE WITH THE DISTRIBUTION.

Not hard :)  Oh, one more thing... there is an easter-egg, and it is very, very
easy to find.  It is an addition in honor of the talents of a friend of mine
here at Carroll.


If you are bored and want to send mail, really feel like sending me money,
which would promote the creation of more of these (heaven forbid), or you
just really find Computer Science geeks attractive and am looking for a date
(women only please), write to:

        Daniel Allen Prust
        313 Hickory Street
        Pewaukee, WI. USA  53072

or, preferrably, e-mail me at:

        dprust@carroll1.cc.edu


Remember, everything is relative!
Be careful -- sending this demo off close to the speed-of-light may make it too
heavy to lift!

Special greetings go to the Future Crew from Finland!
Keep making these things do what people think is impossible! =)
