Ken Musgrave
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Computer Artist
Forest Kenton Musgrave (16 September 1955 – 14 December 2018) was a professor at The George Washington University in the USA. A computer artist who worked with fractal images, he worked on the Bryce landscape software and later as CEO/CTO of Pandromeda, Inc. developed and designed the innovative MojoWorld software.
Ken earned his Ph.D in Computer science from Yale University in 1993, writing his thesis on Methods for Realistic Landscape Imaging.[1] He was referred to by fractal pioneer Benoît Mandelbrot as being “the first true fractal-based artist”.[2] Musgrave designed the initial fractal-based programs on which Bryce was based, and later worked on designing the Deep Materials Lab component of Bryce. Musgrave was technical advisor at ZeniMax Media parent company of videogame publisher Bethesda Softworks, at the time of famous releases such as the RPG Morrowind.[3]