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  Method and manufacture for text and illustration checkerboard designRelated Patent Categories: Amusement Devices: Games, Board Games, Pieces, Or Boards Therefor, Piece Moves Over Board Having Pattern, Chess Or Checker TypeThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20070114721. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION [0001] This application claims benefit of priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/679,492, filed May 10, 2005, which is incorporated herein by reference. FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] This invention relates to the field of chess games and other games and designs using a checkerboard. The invention discloses methods of designing the checkerboard, methods of implementing checkerboard designs into physical embodiments, and methods of improving checkerboard display and visualization. In particular, a method is described of designing a checkerboard employing illustrations such as pictures, figures, drawings, or diagrams, for one of the two checkerboard square colors or patterns, and text, equations, or annotations, ("text") for the second checkerboard color or pattern. In one aspect of the present invention, a method is described for the design of chessboards comprising two alternating square patterns, one characterized by the predominant use of illustration, the second characterized by the predominant use of text. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] Checkerboard games and designs use a checkerboard with two alternating colors. For example, chessboard games typically use alternating dark and light squares in the chessboard design. Other games, such as Chinese checkers, also use a similar pattern. [0004] Checkerboards serve both a functional and an aesthetic purpose. In particular, checkerboard patterns serve to define space and implement constraints. In chess applications, the checkerboard pattern orients the user and defines constraints on the motion of various chess pieces. In a chess game design, it is also desirable for the checkerboard pattern to provide a visual display that promotes abstract reasoning and thinking, as necessary for the meaningful pursuit of the game. [0005] Physical embodiments of checkerboards are typically in the form of a surface or array of surfaces. [0006] Although surface presentation of illustrations typically allows viewing of the illustrations from a variety of angles, it might also be desirable to present illustrations in a form that allows perception of the three-dimensionality of objects and figures in the illustrations. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0007] In this invention a method is described of designing checkerboards with at least two patterns of squares such that the functional and aesthetic requirements of such designs are met by the resulting checkerboard embodiments. [0008] This invention discloses a method of creating the checkerboard surface(s) designed according to the above method from a computer or physical checkerboard layout. [0009] A method of preparing a holographic display of the surface(s) is described, such that perception of the three-dimensional nature of various objects, figures, and illustrations designed according to the above method is made possible from the usable checkerboard surfaces. [0010] In one aspect of the present invention, chessboards consisting of alternating illustration and text square patterns are obtained. In one particular embodiment of the invention, a chessboard is described that contains alternating pictures of scientists and texts and equations describing their work or contributions. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [0011] FIG. 1 presents an algorithm flowchart for the design of checkerboards; [0012] FIG. 2 presents a perspective view of an idealized chessboard with squares of two alternating colors or patterns, one of the colors being represented by illustrations and the second being represented by text on a background of a given color, pattern, or motif; [0013] FIG. 3 presents an orthogonal front view of the chessboard of FIG. 2; [0014] FIG. 4 presents an orthogonal front view of one embodiment of the invention using illustration and text; [0015] FIG. 5 presents one of a number of possible embodiments using the theme of well-known scientific personalities for the illustrations and related discoveries, equations, or findings for the texts; [0016] FIG. 6 shows a means of obtaining a surface or set of surfaces from a printout of a computer file or a picture of a physical layout of a checkerboard; and [0017] FIG. 7 illustrates the use of holograms to generate checkerboard surfaces that provide a sense of depth in the images, illustrations, and possibly text. 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