You can render fractals from a database ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=130971 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=130971 ) and stored procedure languages

You can render fractals from a database ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=130971 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=130971 ) and stored procedure languages are powerful enough to generate .tga files.