Education, fun, and historically interesting, this is one of the books that every pixel monkey should have on his shelves. If you've ever wondered what, exactly, rotoscope means (it has three different meanings) or what to eat with "metaball," is the book for you. Full of interesting information and 32-page color gallery of examples, this is probably one of the more interesting technical dictionary you will ever have the pleasure to look around. Maybe you know the difference between an array and Arri, but the producers try to explain it to you that do not understand. It's one thing to know what buttons to push, but something else entirely to be able to stump your friends with a sense of mysterious terms such as Lindenmayer System or octrees.