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| author | Brian Paul <brian.paul@tungstengraphics.com> | 2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Brian Paul <brian.paul@tungstengraphics.com> | 2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000 |
| commit | 0b27aceae2464db3dd149cf4fd667e353a655c5e (patch) | |
| tree | a8df88dd0893e04a6fe4f125ddd361a1bde9d7ae /docs/thanks.html | |
| parent | dc32636cfd38916ad7b2150e10765026dbb64ce5 (diff) | |
Documentation/website overhaul. The website content and doc/ directory
are now merged and are one and the same.
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diff --git a/docs/thanks.html b/docs/thanks.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d5bb8fa141 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/thanks.html @@ -0,0 +1,139 @@ +<HTML> + +<HEAD> +<TITLE>Acknowledgements</TITLE> +</HEAD> + +<BODY text="#000000" bgcolor="#55bbff" link="#111188"> + +<H1>Acknowledgments</H1> + + +The following individuals and groups are to be acknowledged for their +contributions to Mesa over the years. + + +<ul> +<li>Early Mesa development was done while Brian was part of the +<A HREF="http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html" +target="_parent">SSEC Visualization Project</A> at the University of +Wisconsin. He'd like to thank Bill Hibbard for letting him work on +Mesa as part of that project. +<br> +<br> +<li>John Carmack of id Software, Inc. funded Keith Whitwell in 1999 in +order to optimize Mesa's vertex transformation module. This is a very +substantial piece of work. +<br> +<br> +<li>Precision Insight, Inc., VA Linux Systems, Inc., and most recently, +Tungsten Graphics, Inc. have supported the ongoing development of Mesa. +<br> +<br> +<li>The <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mesa3d" +target="_parent">Mesa</A> +project is hosted by<A HREF="http://sourceforge.net" +target="_parent"><IMG SRC="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=3&type=1" +WIDTH="88" HEIGHT="31" ALIGN="BOTTOM" ALT="Sourceforge.net" BORDER="0"></A> +<br> +<br> + +<li><a href="http://www.altsoftware.com/" +target="_parent">alt.software</a> contributed the Direct3D driver. + +<li><b>Bernd Barsuhn</b> +wrote the evaluator code for (splines, patches) in Mesa. + +<li><b>Bernhard Tschirren</b> +wrote the Allegro DJGPP driver. + +<li><b>Bogdan Sikorski</b> wrote the GLU +NURBS and polygon tessellator in Mesa. + +<li><b>Charlie Wallace</b> wrote +the MS-DOS driver. + +<li><b>CJ Beyer</b> is the +www.mesa3d.org webmaster. + +<li><b>Darren Abbott</b> provided the OS/2 driver. + +<li><b>David Bucciarelli</b> wrote and +maintains the 3Dfx Glide driver. Thousands of Linux/Quake players +thank David! + +<li><b>Gareth Hughes</b> wrote new GLU +1.2 Polygon Tessellation code (now superceded by SGI SI GLU). + +<li><b>Holger +Waechtler</b> contributed AMD 3DNow! assembly code which accelerates +vertex transformation in Mesa 3.1. Holger also implemented the +GL_EXT_texture_env_combine extension. + +<li><b>Jeroen van der Zijp</b> and +<b>Thorsten +Ohl</b> contributed the Xt/Motif widget code. + +<li><b>John Stone</b> provided the +multi-threading support in Mesa 3.0. + +<li><b>John Watson</b> assisted with +web page design. + +<li><b>Josh Vanderhoof</b> +contributed Intel x86 assembly code which accelerates vertex +transformation in Mesa 3.x. + +<li><b>Jouk Jansen</b> +contributed and continues to maintain the VMS support. + +<li>Karl Schultz has been maintaining the Windows driver. + +<li><b>Keith Whitwell</b> has made +extension contributions to Mesa since 1999. + +<li><b>Kendall Bennett</b> +wrote the SciTech MGL driver. + +<li><b>Mark Kilgard</b> contributed +antialiased line improvements and several extensions. + +<li>Michael Pichler contributed <em>many</em> bug fixes + +<li><b>Miklos Fazekas</b> wrote and +maintains the Macintosh driver. + +<li><b>Pascal +Thibaudeau</b> wrote the NeXT driver. + +<li><b>Pedro Vazquez</b> setup +and maintains the Mesa Mailing list. + +<li><b>Randy Frank</b> +contributed <em>many</em> bug fixes. + +<li><b>Stefan Zivkovic</b> wrote the +Amiga driver. + +<li><b>Stephane Rehel</b> provided the +Cygnus Win32 support + +<li><b>Ted Jump</b> maintained the +makefiles and project files for Windows 95/98/NT compilation for some time. + +<li><b>Uwe Maurer</b> wrote the +LibGGI driver for Mesa-3.0. + +<li><b>Victor Ng-Thow-Hing</b> +wrote the Amiwin driver for the Amiga. + +</ul> + +<p> +Apologies to anyone who's been omitted. +Please send corrections and additions to Brian. +</p> + + +</BODY> +</HTML> |