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An animation (which for some reason doesn't appear to be looping after I uploaded it, sorry. Also, I had to shrink it. Just open it in a new tab if you missed the animation):

An animation (which for some reason doesn't appear to be looping after I uploaded it, sorry. Also, I had to shrink it. Just open it in a new tab if you missed the animation):

EDIT: Here are some backgrounds made from these spirals with altered parameters.

Also, by combining my spiral edge patterns with some of the fractals I've seen on here through the use of xor/and/or operations, here is a final spiral:

unsigned char RD(int i,int j){
    // *2 expand the spiral
    // DIM- reverse the gradient
    return DIM - BL(2*i, 2*j);
}
unsigned char GR(int i,int j){
    // notice swapped parameters
    // 128 changes phase of the spiral
    return BL(j,i)+128;
}
unsigned char BL(int i,int j){
    // center it
    i -= DIM / 2;
    j -= DIM / 2;

    double theta = atan2(j,i); //angle that point is from center
    double prc = theta / 3.14f / 2.0f; // percent around the circle

    int dist = sqrt(i*i + j*j); // distance from center

    int makeSpiral = prc * DIM / 2;

    // makes pattern on edge of the spiral
    int waves = sin(_cr(dist * dist)) * 32 + sin(theta * 10) * 64;

    return dist + makeSpiral + waves;
}

unsigned char RD(int i,int j){
    // *2 expand the spiral
    // DIM- reverse the gradient
    return DIM - BL(2*i, 2*j);
}
unsigned char GR(int i,int j){
    // notice swapped parameters
    // 128 changes phase of the spiral
    return BL(j,i)+128;
}
unsigned char BL(int i,int j){
    // center it
    i -= DIM / 2;
    j -= DIM / 2;

    double theta = atan2(j,i); //angle that point is from center
    double prc = theta / 3.14f / 2.0f; // percent around the circle

    int dist = sqrt(i*i + j*j); // distance from center

    // EDIT: if you change this to something like "prc * n * 256" where n
    //   is an integer, the spirals will line up for any arbitrarily sized
    //   DIM value, or if you make separate DIMX and DIMY values!
    int makeSpiral = prc * DIM / 2;

    // makes pattern on edge of the spiral
    int waves = sin(_cr(dist * dist)) * 32 + sin(theta * 10) * 64;

    return dist + makeSpiral + waves;
}