» Surface Detail, Tom Beddard

Tom Beddard was born in London in 1976, he currently lives in Edinburgh working at 55degrees, a company specialized in interactive museum exhibits, video production and enterprise level systems integrations. This genius has a PhD on laser physics and a fascination with aesthetics of detail and complexity result of simple mathematical or algorithmic processes. He says his creative process is writing his own software and scripts to explore the resulting output in an interactive manner. He wrote a couple of Adobe Pixel Bender plugins to work with After effects and Photoshop to do this kind of 3d fractals, he has released 3d Mandelbulb Ray Tracer in his website, he says Mandelbulbs are a new class of 3d Mandelbrot fractals, "Unlike many other 3d fractals, the Mandelbulb continue to reveals finer details the closer you look." This Mandelbulb plugin is not compared with the quality and aesthetics you see in this piece, but his blog news says he is going to release this new plug soon! He also composed the soundtrack of this video and it's up for his fans here.
March 8, 2011 UPDATE: New Fractal Lab Web App, watch introduction video here.