Ken Musgrave was a master of fractal image generation. He brought his skills in mathematical modelling and programming techniques to create artificial landscapes, mountains in particular, planets, and skies, as well as leaves or trees, a capability that was needed for special effects in the film industry. He contributed special effects to films like Titanic, Dante’s Peak, or The Lawnmower Man.
The father of fractal geometry of the late twentieth century, Benoît Mandelbaum, praised him as “the first true fractal-based artist” (as David Grant Taylor reports in his book When the Machine made Art, 2014).
His contributions are more to the film industry and to so-called foto-realism than to art in a more narrow sense of the word.