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A fractal flame using Apophysis software.
Reason
A fractal is a mathematical concept. It is a way of describing complex concepts with very subtle rules.
Fractals are a concept pioneered by Benoît Mandelbrot, and is a concept that you see in many movies and many batch-processing systems. Many fractals require exorbitant levels of parallel computing.
While it is somewhat unrelated, a TED talk by Benoît himself can be found here.
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Apophysis (software)
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Creator
Gut Monk