He is the inventor of fractal flames[1] and the leader of the distributed computing project Electric Sheep.

[2][3] He also invented patch-based texture synthesis and published the first implementation of this class of algorithms.

[7] Stephen Hawking's 2010 book The Grand Design used an image generated by Draves' "flame" algorithm on its cover.

[10] At CMU he studied under Andy Witkin, Dana Scott, and Peter Lee.

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