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My own program, C#/XNA/HLSL. Time to render: 3 minutes. You heard me right, three minutes for this entire video, rendering about seven frames per second, even on my rather terrible machine!
It was originally 480p, but youtube decided to downgrade to 360p.
Reason for the poor quality is that I was going for a speed render, so to speak, see how fast I could crank out a video. I also only started rendering stuff about 4 months ago, so I don't know all the fancy rendering techniques to make something look good (critique/advice/tips are appreciated).
Fudge. Best video title.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/n-qLj7UmKAk&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/n-qLj7UmKAk&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

I remember one person saying their video took 45 seconds/frame, this one took 0.15 seconds/frame. Granted, the other one was pretty high quality, but mine going at 1080p with all settings up still only takes about 2 seconds/frame.
GPU programming is a winner.

Nice to see more GPU programmers here. I've been rendering for a year and still don't know how to make stuff "look good". Thats what makes it art. It wouldn't be as fun if it were just programming. If your looking for the next challenge try reflections/refractions/emissive materials or finding the next "mandelbox/mandelbulb". I look forward to seeing more from you.

You see I'm try to coax you away from real-time One of the reasons there aren't more great fractal programs based on GPUs is that their strength is seen as real-time animation but really they are good at almost all graphics tasks.
I would say on average adding those elements slows my scripts down 4 or 5x. So you are talking 15 minutes instead of 3! Aren't we worth 12 minutes of your computers time? - lol.