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So Bryce 5 is out. What about a Bryce 5 book?

July 26, 2001 in Uncategorized

Corel released Bryce 5 this month. I’ve been getting some email, asking, “Are you going to do a book on Bryce 5?” The short answer to that is no. Why not? I don’t think that the changes from Bryce 4 to 5 warrant a total re-do of the book. If you already paid US$50+ for one or more previous books, would a book revision have enough new material to justify your shelling out another fifty bucks? I don’t think so.

What is AuntiAlias, anyhow?

AuntiAlias is a pun on the word antialias. In computer graphics, anti-aliasing is the process of adding what seems to be blurry in-between pixels to smooth the image so it won't appear so "jaggy." The pun came about in the early days of Bryce, the 3D landscape software. Bryce's final rendering pass is anti-aliasing. On the software's support boards, I'd sign my posts as "Auntie Alias." I thought, "Hey, I'll make that into a screen name!" The 10-character limit resulted in this spelling you see here: auntialias.