Okay, so that may not be the goal of Fyre, but it does serve that purpose well for those interested. It’s really simple to do get a fancy looking image with Fyre, by running through a bunch of random parameters (Ctrl-R) and changing the background and foreground colours all over the place.

Fyre renders Peter De Jong maps, and since I don’t precisely understand what those are you had better read their about page. Basically, the image is a map of the probability that the point lies at the pixel, and the probability is defined by a funny equation. You change the parameters in the equation and you get many different looking chaotic graphs. It’s actually pretty cool to play with.

Fyre also has a nifty animation feature which animates the difference between two maps. It’s fascinating to watch the images morph into each other, but the animation produces an uncompressed .avi, so you might want to try ffmpeg to encode it into a reasonably sized file.