The Interface of Kai Krause's Software (2003)
Points for trying to do something different, but 30 years later these look rather cute and twee. Definitely part of that late 90s bright-colours-and-glass OMG Internet aesthetic, which was a kind of digital tie dye movement that eventually faded into Aqua on MacOS and the glass themes in Windows.<p>There was a period in the mid 90s when the Kai Page Curl effect was <i>everywhere</i>.<p>I spent some time with various versions of Bryce. It was good for entry-level 3D, but in the same way that everything made with KPT looked obviously KPT-ish, everything made with Bryce looked obviously Bryce-ish.<p>It was all fractal mountains, planets, mysterious floating orbs, alien seascapes, lurid sunsets, and the occasional detailed tree if you had a couple of days of render time to spare.<p>You were always clicking around in KaiSpace.<p>There was no way out.