Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public. — Sir Winston Churchill
I would have never thought that a quote from a Tory Prime Minister would make his appearance on these premises. I found it in the preface of Essential Math for Games and Interactive Applications; I immediately felt sympathy for the authors.
Writing any manual is quite an undertaking, especially if done during free time. And this is a bit of an unusual publication. I didn't want to wait for years before finish it and therefore share it with my students, so I decided instead to publish a "work in progress" manual. For this reason, I chose not to print the content into a book and to keep it adjustable for the time being. Moreover, I also preferred to release the content myself instead of going through a publisher to keep control over it.
There are many subjects that I would like to address in the future. Here is a short list; feel free to propose something in this GitHub issue.
BezierPath()FormattedString()The website could also make use of a few improvements: