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9<H1>Acknowledgments</H1>
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12The following individuals and groups are to be acknowledged for their
13contributions to Mesa over the years.
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17<li>Early Mesa development was done while Brian was part of the
18<A HREF="http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html"
19target="_parent">SSEC Visualization Project</A> at the University of
20Wisconsin. He'd like to thank Bill Hibbard for letting him work on
21Mesa as part of that project.
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24<li>John Carmack of id Software, Inc. funded Keith Whitwell in 1999 in
25order to optimize Mesa's vertex transformation module. This is a very
26substantial piece of work.
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29<li>Precision Insight, Inc., VA Linux Systems, Inc., and most recently,
30Tungsten Graphics, Inc. have supported the ongoing development of Mesa.
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33<li>The <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mesa3d"
34target="_parent">Mesa</A>
35project is hosted by<A HREF="http://sourceforge.net"
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41<li><a href="http://www.altsoftware.com/"
42target="_parent">alt.software</a> contributed the Direct3D driver.
43
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]44<li><b>Bernd Barsuhn</b> wrote the evaluator code for (splines,
45patches) in Mesa.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]46
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]47<li><b>Bernhard Tschirren</b> wrote the Allegro DJGPP driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]48
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]49<li><b>Bogdan Sikorski</b> wrote the GLU NURBS and polygon tessellator
50in Mesa.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]51
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]52<li><b>Charlie Wallace</b> wrote the MS-DOS driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]53
Brian Paul6c57b372003-09-05 14:53:25 +0000[diff] [blame]54<li><b>CJ Beyer</b> was the www.mesa3d.org webmaster.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]55
56<li><b>Darren Abbott</b> provided the OS/2 driver.
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Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]58<li><b>David Bucciarelli</b> wrote and maintained the 3Dfx Glide
59driver. Thousands of Linux/Quake players thank David!
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]60
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]61<li><b>Gareth Hughes</b> wrote new GLU 1.2 Polygon Tessellation code
62(now superceded by SGI SI GLU).
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]63
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]64<li><b>Holger Waechtler</b> contributed AMD 3DNow! assembly code which
65accelerates vertex transformation in Mesa 3.1. Holger also implemented
66the GL_EXT_texture_env_combine extension.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]67
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]68<li><b>Jeroen van der Zijp</b> and <b>Thorsten Ohl</b> contributed the
69Xt/Motif widget code.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]70
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]71<li><b>John Stone</b> provided the multi-threading support in Mesa 3.0.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]72
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]73<li><b>John Watson</b> assisted with web page design.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]74
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]75<li><b>Josh Vanderhoof</b> contributed Intel x86 assembly code which
76accelerates vertex transformation in Mesa 3.x.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]77
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]78<li><b>Jouk Jansen</b> contributed and continues to maintain the VMS
79support.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]80
Brian Paul6c57b372003-09-05 14:53:25 +0000[diff] [blame]81<li><b>Karl Schultz</b> has been maintaining the Windows driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]82
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]83<li><b>Keith Whitwell</b> has made extension contributions to Mesa
84since 1999.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]85
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]86<li><b>Kendall Bennett</b> wrote the SciTech MGL driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]87
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]88<li><b>Klaus Niederkrueger</b> contributed many improvements to Mesa's
89software rasterizer.
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91<li><b>Mark Kilgard</b> contributed antialiased line improvements and
92several extensions.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]93
Brian Paul6c57b372003-09-05 14:53:25 +0000[diff] [blame]94<li><b>Michael Pichler</b> contributed <em>many</em> bug fixes
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]95
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]96<li><b>Miklos Fazekas</b> wrote and maintains the Macintosh driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]97
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]98<li><b>Pascal Thibaudeau</b> wrote the NeXT driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]99
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]100<li><b>Pedro Vazquez</b> setup and maintains the Mesa Mailing list.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]101
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]102<li><b>Randy Frank</b> contributed <em>many</em> bug fixes.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]103
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]104<li><b>Stefan Zivkovic</b> wrote the Amiga driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]105
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]106<li><b>Stephane Rehel</b> provided the Cygnus Win32 support
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]107
108<li><b>Ted Jump</b> maintained the
109makefiles and project files for Windows 95/98/NT compilation for some time.
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Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]111<li><b>Uwe Maurer</b> wrote the LibGGI driver for Mesa-3.0.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]112
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]113<li><b>Victor Ng-Thow-Hing</b> wrote the Amiwin driver for the Amiga.
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118Apologies to anyone who's been omitted.
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