Eye Poppingly Awesome Fractal-Inspired Necklace

Can I be honest? I had no idea what a fractal was until I looked it up.  It's no wonder...math and numbers have never been my cup of tea.

For those who don't mind a refresher course, a fractal is a mathematically generated pattern that is reproducible at any magnification or reduction. In other words, it's a geometric pattern that is repeated at constantly smaller scales to produce irregular shapes and/or surfaces that cannot be represented by classical geometry.

It's already been done in jewelry before, but the example above leaves me...um...a little unimpressed. Once I fixed my gaze on the dazzler below, all bets were off.

The New York Times just featured this diamond and sapphire necklace -- created by designer Marc Newson -- for the French jewelry house Boucheron.

Known as the “Julia” necklace, it's being unveiled at a couture-week party in Paris this weekend.

Inspired by the Julia Sets of fractals discovered by Gaston Julia in the early 1900s, this scientifically-spawned sparkler contains around 2,000 paved stones and took the company’s craftspeople 1,500 hours to create.

Is this truly green? Does it count that it makes me green with envy?