distributed fractal rendering

I found a very beautiful abstract background that was exactly what I wanted. The description said it was made with Apophysis. That turned out to be a fractal flame generator. Fractals are good. Gimp can also render fractal flames. They are an extension of IFS fractals. This was apparently all started by Scott Draves in 1992. He created a free application to do distributed rendering of animations of these beautiful fractals, integrated into a screensaver which plays the animations back. Each animation segment is a part of a loop, with a beginning and ending corresponding to other segments, so they loop together smoothly.

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