3D Graphics Coming to Sci-Fi Book Covers

[Phishfood]

Well, you know what people say. "Always judge a book by its cover".

Anyone want to bet this will add £2 to the cost of a book?

When will we see 3d kindles? I always wanted to read a book in 3d.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Was the "ruining" comment truly necessary?

Yes.

You try reading Lovecraft normally and your eyes will wander.

 

[Russian_Assassin]

To quote GLaDOS from Portal 2: Nonononononononononononono!

Really? Stereoscopic 3D books? Excuse me while I go to the kitchen to rage without breaking something...

 

[Matthew Lynch]

I really cannot stand how 3D is EVERYWHERE.

Cause me and my mum wear special verifocal lenses in our glasses, we get migraines if we try to watch 3D...cause of 3D...amd this isn;t a joke, one cinema almost refused to let me book a ticket for Tron legacy in normal 2D...then they cancelled the 2D showing anyway. (we gave up and went to Pizza hut instead)

 

[Nerf Ninja]

So it's just lenticular 3d? Hasn't that been around for ages?

[Edit]

No sorry, it actually requires the glasses! That's stupid. Lenticular 3d would have been better as it doesn't require glasses and with todays tech would probably look very impressive too.

 

[McMullen]

3D Graphics Coming to Sci-Fi Book Covers

That sounds like you mean computer graphics in general. Might be better to say "anaglyphs" or "stereo images", or whatever term there is that is not so ambiguous. Might also be better to keep your opinion on it out of the headline. I'm a CG artist, and my reaction upon reading your subheading was to actually say "Fuck you."

I realized after reading the article that it wasn't about CG in general, but there are still probably people reading your articles that are trying to do creative things with the technology that you are dismissing. You are, presumably, a gamer, and therefore should be more aware of what it looks like when people reject or dismiss technologies simply because they are new and not quite polished yet.