A Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation of an open wheel racecar,
created using Caedium Professional and rendered by POV-Ray, was selected as the
front and back cover of the popular textbook Fox and McDonald's Introduction to
Fluid Mechanics, 8th Edition, Philip J. Pritchard.

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http://www.symscape.com/news/textbook-cover-model

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"syguy" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> A Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation...

Cool image(s), but what immediately strikes me about them is the lack(?) of
anti-aliasing. Or not enough, in any case.  Granted, AA may not even be a
consideration when doing fluid dynamics tests; but if *I* were going to put a CG
image on a textbook cover, I'd want it to look its best. (And I can imagine a
typical four-color printing process playing havoc with those jaggies.)

Ken

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Yes you are right, the image on the website could be better.

However, the image for the book cover was much higher resolution at 2550 x 3300
pixels (8.5" x 11" @ 300dpi) and the level of anti-aliasing looked fine too. I
have a physical copy of the book (8.5" x 11") and there aren't any anti-aliasing
artifacts that I can see.

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