And the same divination system is found all over Africa.

And there it entered into the alchemy community as geomancy divination through the earth.

O you who believe! Intoxicants, gambling, idolatry, and divination are abominations of Satan s doing. Avoid them, so that you may prosper.

But what was fascinating is that the minute there was a sense of dangers, the mamos went into a circle of divination.

O ye who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, (dedication of) stones, and (divination by) arrows, are an abomination, of Satan's handwork eschew such (abomination), that ye may prosper.

O believers, this wine and gambling, these idols, and these arrows you use for divination, are all acts of Satan so keep away from them. You may haply prosper.

The most complex example of an algorithmic approach to fractals that I found was actually not in geometry, it was in a symbolic code, and this was Bamana sand divination.