Gallery
Awhile back I discovered a little program called Starfish. The small (fits on a floppy!) program actually creates random desktop backgrounds, such as the one you're looking at right now (although this background's brightness has been substantially increased to allow you to read this). The program is free and includes source code; download it for Mac OS and UNIX at http://www.redplanetsw.com/starfish/. You'll also find a link to a native Mac OS X version!
Up until recently, the program was available only for Mac OS and Unix, but recently a Windows version was released. I started this gallery so that Windows users could enjoy Starfish without having to use a superior OS =), but now, you can download it for Windows 98/2000 and newer here.
Despite the Windows release, I'm going to keep the Starfish Gallery up here. Please enjoy it.
01/04/2004: Added link to Windows version, and some new pictures.
Small Pictures
These are small and intended to be desktop patterns. Tile them for the best appearance. Just viewing them alone won't do them justice; plaster them all over your desktop for best results! The images seen here are slightly lower-quality but load much faster; click the link below each image for the real thing.
 147 x 127, 18K
 150 x 190, 23K
 140 x 146, 17K
 116 x 197, 18K
 68 x 98, 7K
 119 x 77, 7K
 98 x 117, 12K
 148 x 134, 21K
 136 x 119, 10K
 139 x 187, 16K
 200 x 217, 27K
 214 x 197, 29K
 190 x 182, 41K
 204 x 145, 20K
 214 x 153, 24K
 212 x 211, 32K
 112 x 86, 6K
 277 x 397, 50K
 218 x 161, 24K
 81 x 117, 6K
 190 x 124, 13K
 73 x 64, 6K
 113 x 67, 9K
 207 x 149, 25K
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Large Pictures
I created these for myself to use as backgrounds. I always run my screen at 1024 x 768 resolution, so all of these images are 1024 x 768 unless otherwise specified. (Images at lower resolutions are designed to be tiled at 1024 x 768 resolution.) Unlike the above previews, these are not actual size... the real pictures are much bigger!
ALL images appearing on this page were generated by Starfish 1.2, 1.4 and 2.0.