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Karl Sims

Karl Sims studied computer graphics at the MIT Media Lab, and Life Sciences as an undergraduate at MIT. He currently leads GenArts, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which creates special effects software for the motion picture industry.

Photo by Hank Morgan

Interactive Works:

Galápagos, 1997. Media installation allowing museum visitors to interactively evolve 3D animated forms. Exhibited at the ICC in Tokyo and the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln Mass.

Genetic Images, 1993. Allows the interactive evolution of abstract still images. Exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, and the Interactive Media Festvial in Los Angeles.

Interactive Video Kaleidoscope, 1987. A human sized real kaleidoscope creates colorized feedback patterns from faces. Exhibited at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the SIGGRAPH 1988 Art Show in Atlanta.

Computer Graphics:

"Particle Animation and Rendering Using Data Parallel Computation"
K.Sims, Computer Graphics (Siggraph '90 proceedings), Aug. 1990, pp.405-413.

"Choreographed Image Flow"
K.Sims, The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, Vol.3, 1992, pp.31-43.

Computer Vision:

"Handwritten Character Classification Using Nearest Neighbor in Large Databases" S.Smith, M.Bourgoin, K.Sims, & H.Voorhees, Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Sept. 1994, pp.915-919.
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		Galápagos, 1997. Media installation allowing museum visitors to interactively evolve 3D animated forms. Exhibited at the ICC in Tokyo and the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln Mass.
		Genetic Images, 1993. Allows the interactive evolution of abstract still images. Exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, and the Interactive Media Festvial in Los Angeles.
		Interactive Video Kaleidoscope, 1987. A human sized real kaleidoscope creates colorized feedback patterns from faces. Exhibited at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the SIGGRAPH 1988 Art Show in Atlanta.

		"Particle Animation and Rendering Using Data Parallel Computation" K.Sims, Computer Graphics (Siggraph '90 proceedings), Aug. 1990, pp.405-413.
		"Choreographed Image Flow" K.Sims, The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, Vol.3, 1992, pp.31-43.