SEVEN EXPERIMENTS IN PROCEDURAL ANIMATION

Karl Sims

 

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – Randomic Dimension
Electronic Language International Festival

 

Seven Experiments in Procedural Animation – United States

Animated textures and patterns created from custom computer code employing various fractal algorithms, procedural noise, and reaction-diffusion techniques. The moving images are purely defined by mathematics, but are meant to evoke a biological aesthetic by resembling sea creatures, neurons, or other microscopic structures that transform from one emergent pattern to another.

BIO

Digital media artist and visual effects software developer. He founded GenArts Inc., which created special effects software tools for the motion picture industry. Karl studied computer graphics at the MIT Media Lab, and Life Sciences as an undergraduate at MIT. He is the recipient of various awards including two Ars Electronica Golden Nicas, a MacArthur Genius Grant, and an Emmy Award.