I was introduced to a wonderful screen saver called Electric Sheep which uses an xml-based genome to create fractal renderings. These fractal renderings can be 'bred' together to create new ones, they even slowly mutate over time. From Wikipedia: "The name "Electric Sheep" is taken from the title of Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. The title mirrors the nature of the project: computers (androids) who have started running the screensaver begin rendering (dreaming) the fractal movies (sheep)."
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