Atom demonstrates basic usage of the Bleeble addon for Blender 2.6.1. Bleeble is a Blender AddOn for version 2.6.1 or better. The concept behind Bleeble is that you create selection sets and animate parameters for those sets.
In this video the two sets are represented by the two colors. Using a 12×12 torus as a source mesh, two sets are mapped to two different code types or generation algorithms. Each code type has its own color or material. The orange set is derived from the center ring of the torus. It uses code type 2 which generates recursive protrusions or inset. The red set generates from a different face selection set. It uses code type 1 to generate random size protrusions whose seed changes over time.
from the tutorial post: Here is a basic how to introductory tutorial for the Bleeble python Addon for Blender 2.6.1. In this video I show how to use the Bleeble AddOn to re-create the the initial Bleeble torus from my other Vimeo post. It covers mesh creation, materials, code types, parameters and animating selection sets.
Check out the Bleeble Animated Surface AddOn For Blender here.