Fractals and mandalas

from w
This week I read an article about the time mathematicians got excited about fractals and chaos theory and produced art-like pictures which look like 70s psychedic days. I have always liked patterns created in kaleidescopes and the ever-changing pictures when I looked down the mirrored tube of a kaleidescope in childhood days. I hadn't heard of mandalas then, not until I saw a group of Tibertan monks creating a coloured sand mandala at the Geelong Art Gallery. All of these have one thing in common, repetition and order. If I only had time, as the song goes, I would like to create mandalas, but I am too impatient. Probably there's a shortcut way of making them using a computer program?

Two websites of interest are as follows: escrappers and exentropy.