Sub-blue is a blog run by one Tom Beddard, who likes to play around with home-brew programmes that can generate pretty pictures.

More specifically, astounding pictures that strike an elegant balance between art and logic. Which makes sense, as Tom is an ex-physicist who now fills the role of Technical Director at one of Scotland’s leading digital agencies, tictoc family.

Whenever possible Tom’s experiments are interactive and if you ask him nicely, the source-code is available for download. Which is handy, as the software he writes produces some amazingly intricate visuals. He created several plugins for Adobe’s Pixel Blender, Photoshop, and Aftereffects, which are capable of rendering intricate fractals, and applying Escher’s Droste effect.

He has also graciously made several experimental flash-based image generators available on his site.

He’s also my hero for successfully re-appropriating a beautiful set of images, Ernst Haeckel’s “Artforms of Nature”.

I’m still playing with his plugins, and as yet, haven’t produced anything worth showing with them.

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