P3D RE: Excellent SIRDS type books...

[Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998
>From: Dan Shelley writes:
>...............
>How about 3D Planet! It is my favorite sird type book. I know others on
>this list bought copies when it came out and liked it just as much. I
>think, but very much better than anything else out at the time, and I
>dare say, not much ever got better... (Not that there wasn't some good
>stuff later, but...) =)
>...................

****  Yes, that's one of my all time favorites. Exquisitely done.

It includes advanced features like transparent surfaces inside the SIRDS,
use of photographic surface materials and wallpaper type 3D objects
interspersed with SIRDS style hidden surfaces. All of it in relatively high
resolution. I liked the DNA models too.

My copy had a problem with the double page image where the binding hadn't
been taken into account so the two sides were mismatched and the very center
area was not visible.

The Rabbits image would have been better if the distant trees had been
designed for 3D instead of appearing flat in stereo.

Since I gave away my copy to someone special I'll have to buy another copy
someday. It's worth buying again.

Larry Berlin

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