What They’re Saying About It

Below are some excerpts from email I got just after the book came out.

Also, in the December 1995 issue of Macuser magazine, Pamela Pfiffner recommends the book.

Date: Sat, Aug 12, 1995 1:50 AM PST
From: Spence 3D@xxxxxxx

Dear Aunti:

I just picked up your very thorough and definitive book on the wonders and mysteries of Bryce at SIGGRAPH 95. I’ve only looked at a couple chapters, and glanced through others, and have already gained a comparatively immense understanding of this elegant program. You’ve clarified and enlightened me on some vital aspects that before continually eluded and befuddled me. Until now I never realized that Bryce was capable of so much. I’m already beginning to wonder if I shouldn’t do all of my 3d work with this program. If all manuals were written this well the tech support lines of most developers would be silent. You’ve ignited a greater passion for exploring Bryce for me, and I’m sure, many others. Thanks for your contribution and a job well done.

David A. Spencer- Visual Effects Camera Assistant and 3D enthusiast.

Date: Wed, Aug 30, 1995 4:32 AM PST
From: dharriss@xxxxxxxx

Hello, Susan.

Fan mail from some flounder?

I’ve been waiting patiently for your book to arrive here on the West Coast since the rumor mongering over on AOL and it finally did. I saw, I bought, it’s great! Thanks a lot for putting this altogether under one cover. I’m an complete Bryce novice with no time for manuals, but this one will be read cover to cover.

Date: Mon, Sep 4, 1995 8:16 AM PST
From: VisigotheI@xxxxxxx

I just thaught I’d give you the big ‘Congrats’ on a job well done. The BRYCE book is AMAZING. At first I thaught the program to be rather daunting–even AFTER reading the manual over and over and over again <phew!>, but the book really simplified things like G2H typography and the ever-elusive trees.

Thanks again!!!!!!

The Visigothe (Chris Harrington)

Date: Sat, Sep 2, 1995 3:07 AM PST
From: fredrick@xxxxxxx

Dear Susan (Auntie),

The Book - CDROM combo is beautifully done. I’ll be absorbed by it for a very long time.

Thoroughly enjoyable. Many, many thanks

Date: Thu, Sep 7, 1995 12:46 PM PST
From: VanLippe@xxxxxxx

Dear Susan,

I just received my copy of the KPT Bryce book today and I wanted to contact you to say “thank you” for both the book and being able to participate (in a minor way) but mostly “congratulations!” on a truly fabulous book. I have only just begun to read through it (and check out the CD) but I can see there is a wealth of material here that will keep me busy for a long time to come.

Date: Fri, Sep 8, 1995 6:12 AM PST
From: JPenni@xxxxxxx

Your new book is terrific. Besides the content, your presentation is concise where it should be, and extentsive when needed. I also enjoy your tips on the CD- ROM that came with the KPT Iluustrated Guide by Nick Clarke.

I also enjoy your personal work. Keep it up!

Jay Penni

Date: Thu, Sep 7, 1995 7:12 PM PST
From: Glimage@xxxxxxxx

Coool……..ooooh Wow…….Yippeeee!

Guess what I got on my doorstep this afternoon!

If I had picked this up in a bookstore I think I would’ve started my own stampede to the cashier. Woe to anyone that would stand in my way.

This is super, great, incredible… No wonder everyone kept saying “It’s in the book” …. “Do you have Susan’s book?” ……. “Aunti put the in the book!” and I think Tucker was the one that said “….you DON’T KNOW, do you?!” (reference to Deep Texture)

Date: Sun, Sep 17, 1995 9:07 PM PST
From: Itz ice@xxxxxxx

Hey ! I just got your book on bryce and its great ! especially the skies and clouds part ! the skies used to be my trouble but now they’re my strength. thanks you very much for the great book-

Jeremy, a bryce fanatic

Date: Mon, Sep 18, 1995 12:07 PM PST
From: jcheal@xxxxxxx

Thank you so much for such a great book Susan! I’ve been lurking around the HSC site on AOL for close to two yrs now (confession) and been a Bryce-a-holic since it first came out.

Having had a very sucessful career as a commercial photographer and photojournalist for Time-Life for more yrs than I’d rather remember, I’ve had the opertunity to read quite a few books on imaging of all sorts, and yours is by far the best I’ve read so far. Thank you, you have been a great help in my digital rebirth from camera (Nikon) to lens in Bryce. It has really answered so many ?’s and given me new insight into what I consider the best rendering program on the market today! What a great time to be alive and find a new career direction, in this new digital pixal revolution era.

Great Book!

Jim Cheal aka SnapshotJC on AOL

From: John_Hair@xxxxxx (John Hair)

Date: 10 Sep 1995 16:36:58 GMT

….The The KPT Bryce Book by Susan A. Kitchens not only gives you the software for converting the DEM files but also a listing of files by State and instructions on how to obtain the files on the Internet.

The book is a great addition to the Bryce software and will help get the best from the package.

John

Note: This next one is from my grandfather, who was born in the year 1900.

Date: Tue, Nov 7, 1995 8:39 PM PST
From: ViejoLoco@xxxxxxx

Your book came Saturday. Charles and Connie and Rob were here at suppertime, so we all thumbed thru it after supper, and discussed it at great length. Everyone was substantially impressed.

…I spent most of today reading your book with the following results:

I find it to be one of the best soft-ware manuals that I’ve ever read. It is well laid out, and all that, but the huge difference from all of the others I have read, is that it is written in English, with unity, emphasis, and coherence. And English is my native tongue. So even tho I have neither an Apple Computer, nor the software, I can understand the procedures.

I forgive you the one or two split infinitives that I found because the Wall Street Journal, and all of the other text that I read (except Bill Buckley’s awful right-wing journal) have numbed my sensibilities so that I cringe now only when the infinitive is split by inserting many more than one modifier, and yours never do.

You ought to do a book like this for Windows, or AOL, if you can stoop so low as to get contaminated with that old IBM architecture. God know they both need such a book.

In sum, I am proud to have a granddaughter who can put out such a product. I shall dedicate my copy to passing it around to all of the members of my tribe as they show up.

Good Luck, el veijo loco B.