Question: Facts:   - imagesize: 250px    - field: software art      - works: flame dreams in high fidelity , fuse , bomb , electric sheep ,    - awards: prix , zkm app art award ars electronica , vida 2.0 , vida 4.0    - birth date: 1968    - name: scott draves    - nationality: american    - image: scott_draves_2014 . png   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of scott draves .
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scott draves is the inventor of fractal flames and the leader of the distributed computing project electric sheep .he also invented patch-based texture synthesis and published the first implementation of this class of algorithms .he is also a video artist and accomplished vj .in summer 2010 , draves ' work was exhibited at google 's new york city office , including his video piece `` generation 243 '' which was generated by the collaborative influences of 350,000 people and computers worldwide .stephen hawking 's 2010 book the grand design used an image generated by draves ' `` flame '' algorithm on its cover .known as `` spot , '' draves currently resides in new york city .in july 2012 draves won the zkm app art award special prize for cloud art for the mobile android version of electric sheep .