The title sequence is not all random. In addition to diamonds and swirls, there are mountains, trees, islands and continents. And there are rings, nine in one frame, three in another.

We wanted to continue that with our title sequence, but as we got to the end of Season 1, we realized that the bloodlines and ancestry story we were telling that season--20 years of time in Season ...

He documents the journey, and the associated science, in the video above. The final re-created title sequence starts at the 10:55 mark. The phenomenon is technically known as cymatics.