Zen Light is a screen saver that builds extremely intricate and beautiful patterns from the contributions of thousands of individual dots. The display is constantly in motion and evolving - you will never see the exact same image twice. Be captivated by the natural rhythms and endless outpourings of color and light. Let the organic imagery, chaotic yet ordered, fire your imagination and creativity!

Dozens of Favorites are available to choose among in the Settings dialog, but don't let it end there. Making even small changes to the pattern settings can have profound and stunningly beautiful consequences. Use Slideshow mode to let Zen Light choose patterns at random, or meditate on a single favorite.

Zen Light can create an infinite variety of both kaleidoscopic and natural forms that resemble nature such as flowers, clouds, nebulae, aurora (northern lights), abstract and impressionist paintings, fireworks, snowflakes, rainbow colored fire, bubbles, and all manner of shimmering light patterns and fluid motion.

The complex patterns that arise are based on a very few simple mathematical formulas that govern how a single particle interacts with its environment. When thousands of particles (or more) are thrown into the simulation, very intricate and unexpected patterns emerge, given a few environmental rules (the 'Home' settings) and a starting point (the 'Pattern' settings). The colors chosen are a reflection of the state of each particle (e.g. its velocity, direction of travel, or nearness to an attractor). When added all up, the emergent behavior of the collection of particles gives rise to beautiful images that you never would have predicted.

Since the light shows produced can be as complex as your computer can perform (using as many CPUs as your system has at full capacity if necessary), some green energy-saving options have been included to limit the CPU usage if you like (by limiting the maximum percentage of total CPU power to use, or to throttle down CPU usage after a specified amount of time, or both).

Built with Windows 7 in mind, Zen Light can take advantage of multiple monitors and can be installed on 64-bit Windows as well.

Visit the Gallery to see some example screen shots, or click Documentation above to learn about the various settings possible.

Please see our support page for support information, FAQs, and policies.