Many flumphs practice a form of complex cave painting. They mix pigments pulled from their environment and dissolved in their acidic secretions in order to paint intricate swirling patterns with their tentacles. These patterns are repeated on successively smaller scales, with each repetition a perfect, miniature copy of the whole picture. Flumphs focused on their dream culture claim these fractal patterns show a "wholeness" in the universe, with the minute identical to the vast.