Ars Electronica Festival · 1990
Particle Dreams
by Karl Sims
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 1990
“Particle Dreams” by Karl Sims received a Honorary Mention in the Computer Animation category of the Prix Ars Electronica 1990. Karl Sims has 2 more works in this atlas.
“Particle Dreams” is a collection of four short dream sequences: swirling fire, a snowstorm, a tumultuous head, and a splashing waterfall. They were created using a data-parallel particle rendering and animation system written for the Connection Machine CM-2, a parallel supercomputer containing between 8K and 64K…
About Karl Sims
Karl Sims received a B.S. in life sciences from MIT in 1984. After working at Thinking Machines Corporation for a year, he returned to MIT to study computer graphics at the Media Lab and received a Masters degree in 1987.
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.