Meet Karl Sims, a digital media artist and visual effects software developer who has spent his career exploring the boundaries of computer animation. In his own words, Sims is “interested in making pictures with computer code,” something he began doing in high school. He continued this work as an undergraduate researcher in the Architecture Machine Group—a forerunner of the Media Lab—and as a graduate student in Professor David Zeltzer’s Computer Graphics and Animation group at the Lab. He then