We considered it - see the last paragraph of my recent post - but reasons. We've found it more engaging to have something on the cover with a face, we didn't have a nice model or renderer available showing gems properly anyway, and the very first Gems book, Graphics Gems, already did it, as did Gems II,Gems III,Gems IV, and Gems V.
I love the Graphics Gems series. Each are around 800 pages.
Graphics Gems 1 864 pages
We considered it - see the last paragraph of my recent post - but reasons. We've found it more engaging to have something on the cover with a face, we didn't have a nice model or renderer available showing gems properly anyway, and the very first Gems book, Graphics Gems, already did it, as did Gems II, Gems III, Gems IV, and Gems V.