Screen wallpaper summary.

[Colin McGregor]

Ok, what follows is a summary of the screen wallpaper
sites that have been noted over the past little bit
here on the mailing list. 

To start with here are two sites that carry a lot of
Linux/computer related wallpaper

http://www.easylinuxcds.com/wallpapers/thumbs1.shtml
http://www.kde-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=1x2x3x4x5x6x7

Of the two the easylinuxcds.com site has a fair number
of 
questionable
 taste images, though I did get a
real laugh out of the image of the SCO corporate logo
on a toilet paper roll. The very vast majority of the
kde-look.org images are fit for polite company.

For 3D computer generated images, that are not Linux
specific here are two interesting spots:

http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/
http://www.visualparadox.com/

For 3D ray traced images:

http://b.webring.com/hub?ring=povrayring
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/3450/gallery/index.html
http://shoffsta.linuxside.org/Artwork/

The following site asks people to submit their
artwork, so there is a mix of the good bad and ugly.
Still if you go by the popularity rating for the
images you will see a strong emphasis on science
fiction/fantasy that is fit for a general audience:

http://browse.deviantart.com/

The following four sites seem to be owned/operated by
the same firm, each site having a similar layout and
links to all the others. All four sites could be
summed up as eye candy for guys. A good thing about
all of these four sites is that the do offer many
images in very high resolution, such as 1920 x 1200 .
The skins.be site being largely images of women in
bathing suits. 

http://www.skins.be/index.php

The allmoviewalls.com site is a collection of images
from various major motion pictures. The movie mix is a
reflection of what you would find at a typical
theater, so porn films have a very minor
representation. Action films and horror movies seem to
have a respectable but hardly overwhelming presence. 

http://www.allmoviewalls.com/

desktopmachine.com has images of various cars and
trucks:

http://www.desktopmachine.com/

Bikewalls.com is images of motorcycles. Unlike
desktopmachine.com there are some people very visible
in the bikewalls.com site, but all of them seem to be
wearing leathers and helmets.  The “Naked bike”
category refers to images of bikes without any people
visible.

http://www.bikewalls.com/


Colin McGregor

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