I think this would be a lovely beacon. Notably the expanding concentric semispheres with different colors. The colors could of course be identifying markers for just what it is the beacon is picking up, much like the scanner frequency (And perhaps a visual alternative to the frequency graph)

A delicious lovely loading screen, or perhaps a curtain hiding the construction of a ship at a shipyard

A cursor!

Honestly, no idea where this would be functionally useful, but it's damn pretty.

I imagine travelling through a wormhole might look something like this.

Travelling through a wormhole Part 2

Signal Lost.

The outside of a wormhole. pulsing with different colors

A flying formation of drones, where they form concentric hexagons that spin in opposite directions, leaving a wake in the path of their alternating directions.

The background image to an avatar, it's strange but it's their culture, you don't have to understand it.

Loading screen? Nodal Menu? Yes Please

More the idea of sinusoidal waves of parallel platelets than anything else, It made me think that an isometric view of the frequency scanner would look amazing!
This might be a way to show a lot of information about a star system on a map, with a bright light at the center, translucent toroids with different colors to represent known factions, and particles to represent the activity/population of a system.

This immediately struck me as a great way to visualize interstellar empires, as having almost a mucus like translucent envelope around the systems they control. The systems wouldn't jiggle like in the image, but in a 3d map it could really offer a more coherent way to envision what a particular faction's territory looks like
Something like this seems like it would be a good "rally point" marker for 3d space
This is a power core if I've ever seen one, something like this might be nice to see in schematic, hologram views of a ship or station
This seems like a good "working" icon for an overview of projects.
A good Planetary Beacon, or perhaps containment field
Loading Screen? Cursor? maybe
The icon for "RELEASE THE DRONES!"

More images from inside a wormhole!. If a variety of these could be combined, LT wormholes would be absolutely gorgeous!
Another, gooey, fluidlike way of showing the frequency scanner. Especially useful is color variation of the blobs, indicating different signals in the same scan
Just an animation guide for switching between windows. Just imagine a data screen being painted onto each of those polygons, and then being "flipped" in 3 dimensions to reveal other screens
More loading/"working"/beacon/cursor Icons

Maybe a scan-refresh image, behaving like windshield wipers
"We are being Hailed Sir."
This could be so many things, from the game's main menu to a project manager, to...

and
and

Rivers of stars



Accretion Disks



Portals to other dimensions



Novae



Galaxies





White Holes




Spacequakes-Rips in reality, very dangerous


Spaceflowers











3D wormhole/hyperspace tubes

Small Stations


Large Stations



A mobile Jumpgate


Small Jumpgates



Large Jumpgates



Fleet sized Jumpgates

PCG images of a colony, background at shipyard







PCG backgrounds for interfaces (every interface could have a unique background per seed!)






tiles, could put patterns on each tile










Radial Menu Star