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11<H1>Acknowledgments</H1>
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14The following individuals and groups are to be acknowledged for their
15contributions to Mesa over the years.
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19<li>Early Mesa development was done while Brian was part of the
20<A HREF="http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html"
21target="_parent">SSEC Visualization Project</A> at the University of
22Wisconsin. He'd like to thank Bill Hibbard for letting him work on
23Mesa as part of that project.
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26<li>John Carmack of id Software, Inc. funded Keith Whitwell in 1999 in
27order to optimize Mesa's vertex transformation module. This is a very
28substantial piece of work.
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31<li>Precision Insight, Inc., VA Linux Systems, Inc., and most recently,
32Tungsten Graphics, Inc. have supported the ongoing development of Mesa.
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35<li>The <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mesa3d"
36target="_parent">Mesa</A>
37project is hosted by<A HREF="http://sourceforge.net"
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43<li><a href="http://www.altsoftware.com/"
44target="_parent">alt.software</a> contributed the Direct3D driver.
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Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]46<li><b>Bernd Barsuhn</b> wrote the evaluator code for (splines,
47patches) in Mesa.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]48
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]49<li><b>Bernhard Tschirren</b> wrote the Allegro DJGPP driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]50
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]51<li><b>Bogdan Sikorski</b> wrote the GLU NURBS and polygon tessellator
52in Mesa.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]53
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]54<li><b>Charlie Wallace</b> wrote the MS-DOS driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]55
Brian Paul6c57b372003-09-05 14:53:25 +0000[diff] [blame]56<li><b>CJ Beyer</b> was the www.mesa3d.org webmaster.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]57
58<li><b>Darren Abbott</b> provided the OS/2 driver.
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Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]60<li><b>David Bucciarelli</b> wrote and maintained the 3Dfx Glide
61driver. Thousands of Linux/Quake players thank David!
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]62
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]63<li><b>Gareth Hughes</b> wrote new GLU 1.2 Polygon Tessellation code
64(now superceded by SGI SI GLU).
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]65
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]66<li><b>Holger Waechtler</b> contributed AMD 3DNow! assembly code which
67accelerates vertex transformation in Mesa 3.1. Holger also implemented
68the GL_EXT_texture_env_combine extension.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]69
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]70<li><b>Jeroen van der Zijp</b> and <b>Thorsten Ohl</b> contributed the
71Xt/Motif widget code.
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 Stone</b> provided the multi-threading support in Mesa 3.0.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]74
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]75<li><b>John Watson</b> assisted with web page design.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]76
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]77<li><b>Josh Vanderhoof</b> contributed Intel x86 assembly code which
78accelerates vertex transformation in Mesa 3.x.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]79
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]80<li><b>Jouk Jansen</b> contributed and continues to maintain the VMS
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Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]82
Brian Paul6c57b372003-09-05 14:53:25 +0000[diff] [blame]83<li><b>Karl Schultz</b> has been maintaining the Windows driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]84
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]85<li><b>Keith Whitwell</b> has made extension contributions to Mesa
86since 1999.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]87
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]88<li><b>Kendall Bennett</b> wrote the SciTech MGL driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]89
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]90<li><b>Klaus Niederkrueger</b> contributed many improvements to Mesa's
91software rasterizer.
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93<li><b>Mark Kilgard</b> contributed antialiased line improvements and
94several extensions.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]95
Brian Paul6c57b372003-09-05 14:53:25 +0000[diff] [blame]96<li><b>Michael Pichler</b> contributed <em>many</em> bug fixes
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]97
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]98<li><b>Miklos Fazekas</b> wrote and maintains the Macintosh 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>Pascal Thibaudeau</b> wrote the NeXT driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]101
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]102<li><b>Pedro Vazquez</b> setup and maintains the Mesa Mailing list.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]103
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]104<li><b>Randy Frank</b> contributed <em>many</em> bug fixes.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]105
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]106<li><b>Stefan Zivkovic</b> wrote the Amiga driver.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]107
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]108<li><b>Stephane Rehel</b> provided the Cygnus Win32 support
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]109
110<li><b>Ted Jump</b> maintained the
111makefiles 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]113<li><b>Uwe Maurer</b> wrote the LibGGI driver for Mesa-3.0.
Brian Paul0b27ace2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000[diff] [blame]114
Brian Paul79544802003-03-10 14:01:05 +0000[diff] [blame]115<li><b>Victor Ng-Thow-Hing</b> wrote the Amiwin driver for the Amiga.
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120Apologies to anyone who's been omitted.
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