Bauhaus Screensaver

I came across the Bauhaus Clock screensaver and immediately wanted it on my machine, but it was a paid app (really expensive like 19 dollars!). Rather than pay for it, I decided to build my own open-source recreation from scratch. The result was a macOS .saver file written in Objective-C, a minimal geometric clock inspired by the Bauhaus design movement that anyone could download and install for free.

It was quite painful to run and vibe-code this in an iterative testing loop because macOS is finicky with running screensaves like that. Or maybe i just didn’t know any better! It turned out to be reasonably good but not as sick as the real thing tbh

Anyways, I ended up buying the real screensaver because I appreciate art and understand the time and effort taken to create such beautiful work.

Shoutout Atilla for the Student discount because i was broke :D