i just want to point you to a nice animation, called

"Incredible Mandelbrot Directed Energy Weapon",  it is a funny animation of a mandelbrot blasting into a circle

but i do not want to link directly to the video, so i describe where to find it visit

go to http://www.fractal-animation.net/ufvp.html

and scroll down the page, or search for "incredible" the second last video on that page is the energy weapon animation

have fun!