- Ken Musgrave
Dr. Forest Kenton "Ken" Musgrave (aka "Doc Mojo"), formerly a professor at
The George Washington University and currently CEO/CTO of Pandromeda, Inc, is a computer artist, working withfractal images.Education
Born on
September 16 1955 , he obtained his Ph.D inComputer Science fromYale University in 1993 where his seminaldissertation , "Methods for Realistic Landscape Imaging" was written. He was referred to byBenoît Mandelbrot as being "the first true fractal-based artist".Work
Musgrave designed the initial fractal-based programs on which Bryce was based. His work was featured in an article in the January 1996
Scientific American (Playing Slartibartfast with Fractals; January 1996; by Gibbs), about fractal curves. The article described software that he had designed which would generate entire planets at random and allow a user to walk about that world, exploring mountains or forests, etc. The article mentioned that the software would find itself used in a computer game and that the randomly generated landscape would have to be populated with evil monsters. In fact, the software eventually became a commercial title called MojoWorld [http://www.pandromeda.com]Publications
* "Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach" - Ken Musgrave et al, 1998 - ISBN 0-12-228730-4
External links
* [http://www.kenmusgrave.com Ken Musgrave's website]
* [http://pandromeda.com Pandromeda's website]
* [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=193498 Methods for Realistic Landscape Imaging - dissertation]ee also
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Fractal landscape
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