Artwork created in 1997

• Renderer: POV-Ray
• The society/building idea has been used by UK novelist J. G. Ballard in "High-rise", where the wealthy and civilised inhabitants of a gigantic sky-scraper revert to sheer barbary (cannibalism included).
• In 2001, I received an email from Claire Walsh, the long-time companion of J.G. Ballard, who was curious about the link between this picture and Mr Ballard's novel.
• The "building" is made of an isosurfacic equation that mixes square roots, cosine and exponentials. The "spike" is given by a 1/(x²+z²) term in the equation.
• "Bonnemère" means literally "Goodmother" in French.