Fractals/Flame fractals

Flame fractals are a relative of IFS Fractals, that extend the concept to include more complicated transformations.

Author
Flames were first invented by Scott Draves, he has also authored the SETI-at-home-style flame fractal screensaver called 'Electric Sheep'.

Apophysis
A now open-source project to allow editing and rendering of flame fractals, with some interesting developments into 3d flame fractals with extended geometry such as surfaces.

Links

 * Wikipedia on Flame Fractals
 * Electric Sheep community server
 * Apophysis