Where does this picture come from (or what does it illustrate)?

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Sorry if this doesn't belong here, but I do think this is math-related. I stumbled upon a interesting looking picture a while ago (I think it was either on Stackexchange or Reddit), and I had saved it to my desktop. I recall that it had some mathematical meaning to it (I think I remember a caption saying "this picture is the ... of roots of ...") or something.
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I have found the explanation on this page. The author, David Angell says that this is the graph of

$$\sum_{n=1}^{10620} e^{2 \pi i f(n)}$$ where $$ f(n) = \frac{n}{dd}+\frac{n^2}{mm}+\frac{n^3}{yy} $$ where $dd, mm, yy$ are the values corresponding to his date of birth. Partial sums are computed and consecutive complex values are joined by a straight line segment.