Believe it or not, these pictures are generated applying only a very simple algorithm on every pixel or cell repeatedly, an algorithm so simple that it can be written down in one single clear sentence!

Note 1: The pictures are scaled down from a 640x480 resolution.

Note 2: The random starting states of the two sequences differ only by 1 pixel or cell.

Note 3: The left sequence is the first sequence with a random state ever tested, the right sequence the second. So nothing can be said about how special the cell-like structure is. At least it is a bit odd ...

Note 4: The pictures are shifted vertically such that the cell appears in the middle of the pictures.

Note 5: The palette of the two pictures with the bubbles is slighty different to show the bubbles better. I myself call the bubbles "random Benard cells". The emergence of these bubbles alone probably can give enough information to study for a lifetime!

Note 6: The intermediate pictures cannot be interpolated. This means that when viewing all the iterations you will NOT see a slowly growing cell. The Yin Yang Fire burns in a periodic way, in this case with a period of about 428 iterations. The cell-pictures are taken at a certain interval, such that it corresponds to the same moment of the period. This means that the pictures are taken every 428 iterations. In between, the cell slowly vanishes and appears again after 428 iterations, although a bit bigger ...

Note 7: The pictures at the bottom best resembles the character of the fire in which it will burn for a long time ...

Note 8: Don't blame me for the bad readability of this text, don't read this text, just view the pictures!

Last Note : Of course the cell-like structure has nothing to do with the structure of a real cell, but still ... One can ponder better about how life could have emerged from dead material if the Yin Yang Fire can easily show that self-organizing structures, like the one above, can easily emerge out of almost nothing!

And another thought, how many serious scientists would consider the finding of a strcuture like the one above on a distant planet, as a definite proof for the existence of life on that planet? ...