KAI'S POWER TOOLS

http://www.core77.com/blog/goo%20-%20mona%20lisa.jpg

bonus points for any and all examples of the KPT Spheroid Designer on trance comps from 94-on

it must have felt so bad-ass when you had a macho enuf power macintosh to run this properly

It was really all about the Power Goo, whatever the hell that was.

http://217.160.138.169/pic_b/avi1cd004_b.jpg

http://img11.nnm.ru/imagez/gallery/5/f/0/e/e/5f0ee3926d53615bcae93ad98fe593ad_full.jpg

KPT BRYCE

i used to play around with this shit on my dad's overpowered Mac Quadra all the time -- the 'texture explorer' plugin held a particular fascination for me.

http://www.mprove.de/script/99/kai/_media/high/KPT3TextureExplorer.jpg

yes yes y'all

blazin' the UI design trail

you guys remember these? a lot of them are actually still really useful:

http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/gimp/KPT/

10 years from now the Tarantinos of tomorrow are going to be wrecking this up for their opening titles, you watch and see

hugely OTM

This is for the tacky 90s raytracing pigeonhole rather than KPT, but someone spent days tweaking the angles on the rays and then stayed up all night waiting for this to render and thought they were the king of future art (and hell, I would've done too, at the time):
http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/5697/r449801165583584eu9.jpg
I don't think that scan does justice to quite how "oh, 1996-paws" the finished product is, even.

As for KPT, I just put a bunch of late-90s computer magazines in the recycling. KPT got a glowing review declaring it the future of everything, and in every issue after that every photo has this unnerving oversaturated tint with extreme foreshortened poses and drop shadows. Strangely I didn't really notice at the time.

when i was maybe 12 years old I remember emailing kai krause at his AOL screenname asking for photoshop advice -- well, it was actually more of a fan letter written on the pretext of asking advice -- and actually got a response from him. i remember thinking it was a huge deal, and to this day remains the only fan letter i've ever written that gained any reply.

shortly thereafter I designed a 2" button for the local Cathlic diocese's annual march (LOL young believer) and used at least 4 different KPT textures in the design.

Catholic, even

i remember used to love playing with the winimages demo i had free from a magazine cover. oh the plasma/lightning effect paws.

Can we see a picture of this button, elmo?

Cas, I have no idea if any of them still exist, but I remember exactly what it looked like. The day of the march I remember seeing a Hispanic family who attended our church had rendered a version of my design in magic marker on a piece of posterboard. This, too, was a big deal to me.

Instant "Brushed Aluminum" textures

I wasted much of an extracurricular photography class in middle school sitting around messing with KPT

i don't expect it's as recognizable but i also loved this magazine, from around the same time:

http://www.bamagazine.com/v/vspfiles/photos/P1010000-2.jpg

also NEVER FORGET that we have KPT to thank for PAGE CURL

The Interface of Kai Krause’s Software (somehow both academic and hagiographic)

*shudders*

POWER GOO on a university computer lab powermac!

love it!! thanks for posting

those screenshots really take me back. to the 90s in a high school photography class computer lab

^^^, i associate this whole visual look and feel to watching other kids goof around on this in "Technology" class (aka wood shop with added computer modules that you rotated through). mostly they played Need for Speed II, but also this.

definitely. it also brings me back to leafing through apple mail order catalogues in the 90s