Making art out of nothing at all

According to the Flickr page I grabbed this from, this photo of a simple bookcase has been turned into a work of art via conformational transformation. From the notes at Flickr:

A conformal transformation is a kind of function defined over all complex numbers that has the basic property of being differentiable, i.e. continuous and smoothly varying. Such a function defines a transformation on the plane that has the property of conserving the angles. This implies that on a very small scale shape is preserved in such a transformation.

Almost all these images are done with a Gimp plug-in called Mathmap. Then it is just a matter of finding an interesting transformation.

Check the link for a bunch more trippy conformations. Thanks to the.bricoleur for pointing this out!