As someone who has worked in semiconductors all their career, I just had to add my two pennyworth:

At my first company, I saw the following examples of 'silicon art':

Strangely enough, our company discouraged the inclusion of such 'silicon art'. The technical reason being that such structures caused DRC violations and that the fab. engineers didn't like them because they were yield hazards!

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