This wonderful practice was named by nerd-tographer* Aditya Mandayam, who presses the paper to the screen of his IBM R51 Thinkpad and runs a (Linux) command-line script to blip the screen on and off.

Check out these beautiful computer-generated flowers. London-based artist Daniel Brown has been creating them for 10 years. "It started off as a demonstration of computer programs," he tells the BBC.