Ruslan Tihomirow’s Chromatic Experiments

Ruslan Tihomirow is not really making objects. He is making light do cool stuff.

In The Power of Reflections, the Berlin-based 3D artist treats glass, gloss, and shiny surfaces like a playground.

Shapes are simple, almost boring on their own. But once light hits them, things get weird in the best way.

Colors split, reflections bounce, and surfaces start acting like they have their own personality.

Nothing here is “painted” on. The color happens because light is bending, scattering, and generally refusing to behave. One moment you get a soft rainbow glow, the next you see a highlight stretching like melted candy.

It feels like staring into a soap bubble, a puddle, or a window at just the right angle and thinking, wait, how is that real?

What makes the work fun is how minimal the setup is. No clutter. No big scenes. Just form plus light equals visual magic. It is basically a reminder that physics is an underrated design tool.

There is also something satisfying about how digital this all is, yet how familiar it feels. We have all seen these effects in real life, just in tiny flashes. Tihomirow freezes those moments and cranks them up so we can actually notice them.