The year of isosurfaces, thanks to Ryoichi Suzuki' Iso-patch. Most of the pictures are based on isosurfaces or other mathematical constructs, like julias. 1997 was also the year of radiosity, a technique that was very slow and difficult to master at the time, with pictures using it: "
Alfama" and "
Shopping frenzy". Tiny Poser characters could now be found in many images but they were still too ugly. By the way, "Alfama" is possibly one of the first POV-Ray pictures ever to feature radiosity, isosurfaces, user-defined function pigments and a Poser character at the same time. A large part of the year was dedicated to the 6-month rendering of the "
Cubicle workers", using several computers...
