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What are those fractals on the 3rd picture? They remind me of Lissajous curves used in oscilloscopes.

I think they are "symmetric icons" :

Can't remember where I've seen them before - possibly in a book on Symmetry.

Yes, those are symmetric icons, a type of attractor. See http://datashader.org/topics/strange_attractors.html for all the details.