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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Particle Dreams
Karl Sims
Original: Particle Dreams | 4425 * 3017px | 42.9 MB
Original: Particle Dreams | 4425 * 3017px | 42.9 MB
Original: Particle Dreams | 4425 * 3017px | 42.9 MB
“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 processors.
A particle behavior language was used to combine dynamic simulations with kinematically controlled motions and create realistic looking movements as well as unrealistic ones. Each particle in motion was assigned its own virtual processor such that thousands of particles could all be animated and rendered simultaneously. (Karl Sims)
Technischer Hintergrund:
Particle Dreams, 1988, 1'10''
Hw: Connection Machine 2
Sw: Optomystic/Karl Sims
A particle behavior language was used to combine dynamic simulations with kinematically controlled motions and create realistic looking movements as well as unrealistic ones. Each particle in motion was assigned its own virtual processor such that thousands of particles could all be animated and rendered simultaneously. (Karl Sims)
Technischer Hintergrund:
Particle Dreams, 1988, 1'10''
Hw: Connection Machine 2
Sw: Optomystic/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. He then joined the R&D effort at Whitney/Demos Productions for one year, and later became the Director of Research and co-founder of Hollywood based Optomystic. He currently works part time at Optomystic and part time at Thinking Machines Corporation as a consultant, writing parallel software for computer graphics and animation.