This my husband's textbook that he uses at
work. He's a computer scientist and he works at Volition as a game
programmer. He brought this home one day
and I thought it was a well done cover for a textbook ― especially a
computer-math textbook.
The scanned colors didn't come our very
well. The cover is more tan than the
sickly green it appears to be and all of the adjustments I tried made it look
more like puke. Sorry.
So, what I like about the cover... I like
the shape and placement of the E and M and how they relate to the angle and
triangle. The line represents a 2-dimentional vector (direction [angle] and
length [magnitude]). Game programming uses lots of 3-dimesional vector matrix
processing linked with velocity and acceleration matrices. I really like the geometric
font for the word GAMES and the cut-away A. I could live without the swirly
thing but I think it is suppose to represent the 3-D aspect of programming. All-in-all, I like the clean, angular, almost
Swiss style of the cover.
Source: Van Verth, James M., Bishop, Lars
M. Essential Mathematics for Games and
Interactive Applications: A Programmer's Guide, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers,
San Francisco, CA 2004.
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