[AceJohnny2]

When working on an SoC over 5 years ago, we'd have it display the company logo on screen upon boot. While not necessary for the test, it was really useful to see if the system reached that boot stage.

As an afternoon exercise, I wrote a Mandelbrot draw function (my first fractal display code!). Then I realized it was both faster and used less code and runtime memory than the image display stuff, so I replaced it in my environment. Other people were amused by it, so it went in public repository.

A couple weeks later, someone removed it to reinstate the image display. I guess having the company logo for internal-only code was more important to someone :(

I don't work there anymore.

[userbinator]

Even better if your company's logo is a fractal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:American_Megatrends_Logo....

If I remember correctly, early AMIBIOS did generate that logo procedurally using a short piece of code.