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4 unusual facts about Karl Sims


GenArts, Inc.

Karl Sims founded GenArts, Inc. as Genetic Arts in 1996 in Cambridge, MA as a developer of Discreet Spark Plugins.

Human-based computation

Victor Johnston and Karl Sims extended this concept by harnessing the power of many people for fitness evaluation (Caldwell and Johnston, 1991; Sims, 1991).

Interactive evolutionary computation

An example of this approach is an interactive media installation by Karl Sims that allows to accept preference from many visitors by using floor sensors to evolve attractive 3D animated forms.

Karl Sims

The cover of Artificial Life: An Overview by Chris Langton notably used an image of the creatures generated by Sims.



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