i got bored one evening, and went looking on the internet for a fractal program, and found Apophysis (www.apophysis.org (http://www.apophysis.org)), which generates fractal flames according to the settings you give it... sort of like terragen, but not for terrain....
after a bit of fiddling with the controls and the editor, modifying the number of mutations and transforms, etc, i had a few images i liked... so i rendered them in desktop-sized png's (1280x1024) then shrunk them down as a maximum quality jpeg:
(click thumbnail for the big image)
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Wow, these are pretty awesome! Definitely unique and abstract.
The first is my favorite.