docs/thanks.rst

   1 Acknowledgements
   2 ================
   3
   4 The following individuals and groups are to be acknowledged for their
   5 contributions to Mesa over the years. This list is far from complete and
   6 somewhat dated, unfortunately.
   7
   8 -  Early Mesa development was done while Brian was part of the `SSEC
   9    Visualization Project <https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html>`__
  10    at the University of Wisconsin. He'd like to thank Bill Hibbard for
  11    letting him work on Mesa as part of that project.
  12 -  John Carmack of id Software, Inc. funded Keith Whitwell in 1999 in
  13    order to optimize Mesa's vertex transformation module. This is a very
  14    substantial piece of work.
  15 -  Precision Insight, Inc., VA Linux Systems, Inc., and most recently,
  16    Tungsten Graphics, Inc. have supported the ongoing development of
  17    Mesa.
  18 -  The `Mesa <https://www.mesa3d.org>`__ website and git repository are
  19    hosted by `freedesktop.org <https://freedesktop.org/>`__.
  20 -  `alt.software <http://web.archive.org/web/20131110021426/http://www.altsoftware.com/>`__
  21    contributed the Direct3D driver.
  22 -  **Bernd Barsuhn** wrote the evaluator code for (splines, patches) in
  23    Mesa.
  24 -  **Bernhard Tschirren** wrote the Allegro DJGPP driver.
  25 -  **Bogdan Sikorski** wrote the GLU NURBS and polygon tessellator in
  26    Mesa.
  27 -  **Charlie Wallace** wrote the MS-DOS driver.
  28 -  **CJ Beyer** was the www.mesa3d.org webmaster.
  29 -  **Darren Abbott** provided the OS/2 driver.
  30 -  **David Bucciarelli** wrote and maintained the 3Dfx Glide driver.
  31    Thousands of Linux/Quake players thank David!
  32 -  **Gareth Hughes** wrote new GLU 1.2 Polygon Tessellation code (now
  33    superseded by SGI SI GLU).
  34 -  **Holger Waechtler** contributed AMD 3DNow! assembly code which
  35    accelerates vertex transformation in Mesa 3.1. Holger also
  36    implemented the GL_EXT_texture_env_combine extension.
  37 -  **Jeroen van der Zijp** and **Thorsten Ohl** contributed the Xt/Motif
  38    widget code.
  39 -  **John Stone** provided the multi-threading support in Mesa 3.0.
  40 -  **John Watson** assisted with web page design.
  41 -  **Josh Vanderhoof** contributed Intel x86 assembly code which
  42    accelerates vertex transformation in Mesa 3.x.
  43 -  **Jouk Jansen** contributed and continues to maintain the VMS
  44    support.
  45 -  **Karl Schultz** has been maintaining the Windows driver.
  46 -  **Keith Whitwell** has made extension contributions to Mesa since
  47    1999.
  48 -  **Kendall Bennett** wrote the SciTech MGL driver.
  49 -  **Klaus Niederkrueger** contributed many improvements to Mesa's
  50    software rasterizer.
  51 -  **Mark Kilgard** contributed antialiased line improvements and
  52    several extensions.
  53 -  **Michael Pichler** contributed *many* bug fixes
  54 -  **Miklos Fazekas** wrote and maintains the Macintosh driver.
  55 -  **Pascal Thibaudeau** wrote the NeXT driver.
  56 -  **Pedro Vazquez** setup and maintains the Mesa Mailing list.
  57 -  **Randy Frank** contributed *many* bug fixes.
  58 -  **Stefan Zivkovic** wrote the Amiga driver.
  59 -  **Stephane Rehel** provided the Cygnus Win32 support
  60 -  **Ted Jump** maintained the makefiles and project files for Windows
  61    95/98/NT compilation for some time.
  62 -  **Uwe Maurer** wrote the LibGGI driver for Mesa-3.0.
  63 -  **Victor Ng-Thow-Hing** wrote the Amiwin driver for the Amiga.
  64
  65 Apologies to anyone who's been omitted. Please send corrections and
  66 additions to Brian.