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| 11 | <h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1>
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| 17 | <h1>Acknowledgements</h1>
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| 20 | The following individuals and groups are to be acknowledged for their
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| 21 | contributions to Mesa over the years.
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| 22 | This list is far from complete and somewhat dated, unfortunately.
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| 25 | <ul>
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| 26 | <li>Early Mesa development was done while Brian was part of the
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| 27 | <a href="https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html">
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| 28 | SSEC Visualization Project</a> at the University of
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| 29 | Wisconsin. He'd like to thank Bill Hibbard for letting him work on
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| 30 | Mesa as part of that project.
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| 31 | <br>
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| 33 | <li>John Carmack of id Software, Inc. funded Keith Whitwell in 1999 in
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| 34 | order to optimize Mesa's vertex transformation module. This is a very
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| 35 | substantial piece of work.
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| 36 | <br>
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| 38 | <li>Precision Insight, Inc., VA Linux Systems, Inc., and most recently,
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| 39 | Tungsten Graphics, Inc. have supported the ongoing development of Mesa.
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| 40 | <br>
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| 41 | <br>
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| 42 | <li>The
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| 43 | <a href="https://www.mesa3d.org">Mesa</a>
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| 44 | website and git repository are hosted by
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| 45 | <a href="https://freedesktop.org/">freedesktop.org</a>.
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| 46 | <br>
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| 47 | <br>
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| 48 |
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| 50 | <li><a href="http://www.altsoftware.com/">alt.software</a> contributed the Direct3D driver.
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| 51 |
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| 52 | <li><b>Bernd Barsuhn</b> wrote the evaluator code for (splines,
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| 53 | patches) in Mesa.
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| 54 |
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| 55 | <li><b>Bernhard Tschirren</b> wrote the Allegro DJGPP driver.
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| 56 |
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| 57 | <li><b>Bogdan Sikorski</b> wrote the GLU NURBS and polygon tessellator
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| 58 | in Mesa.
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| 59 |
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| 60 | <li><b>Charlie Wallace</b> wrote the MS-DOS driver.
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| 61 |
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| 62 | <li><b>CJ Beyer</b> was the www.mesa3d.org webmaster.
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| 63 |
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| 64 | <li><b>Darren Abbott</b> provided the OS/2 driver.
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| 65 |
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| 66 | <li><b>David Bucciarelli</b> wrote and maintained the 3Dfx Glide
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| 67 | driver. Thousands of Linux/Quake players thank David!
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| 68 |
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| 69 | <li><b>Gareth Hughes</b> wrote new GLU 1.2 Polygon Tessellation code
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| 70 | (now superceded by SGI SI GLU).
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| 71 |
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| 72 | <li><b>Holger Waechtler</b> contributed AMD 3DNow! assembly code which
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| 73 | accelerates vertex transformation in Mesa 3.1. Holger also implemented
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| 74 | the GL_EXT_texture_env_combine extension.
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| 75 |
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| 76 | <li><b>Jeroen van der Zijp</b> and <b>Thorsten Ohl</b> contributed the
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| 77 | Xt/Motif widget code.
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| 78 |
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| 79 | <li><b>John Stone</b> provided the multi-threading support in Mesa 3.0.
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| 80 |
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| 81 | <li><b>John Watson</b> assisted with web page design.
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| 82 |
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| 83 | <li><b>Josh Vanderhoof</b> contributed Intel x86 assembly code which
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| 84 | accelerates vertex transformation in Mesa 3.x.
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| 85 |
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| 86 | <li><b>Jouk Jansen</b> contributed and continues to maintain the VMS
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| 87 | support.
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| 88 |
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| 89 | <li><b>Karl Schultz</b> has been maintaining the Windows driver.
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| 90 |
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| 91 | <li><b>Keith Whitwell</b> has made extension contributions to Mesa
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| 92 | since 1999.
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| 94 | <li><b>Kendall Bennett</b> wrote the SciTech MGL driver.
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| 95 |
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| 96 | <li><b>Klaus Niederkrueger</b> contributed many improvements to Mesa's
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| 97 | software rasterizer.
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| 98 |
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| 99 | <li><b>Mark Kilgard</b> contributed antialiased line improvements and
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| 100 | several extensions.
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| 101 |
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| 102 | <li><b>Michael Pichler</b> contributed <em>many</em> bug fixes
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| 104 | <li><b>Miklos Fazekas</b> wrote and maintains the Macintosh driver.
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| 105 |
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| 106 | <li><b>Pascal Thibaudeau</b> wrote the NeXT driver.
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| 108 | <li><b>Pedro Vazquez</b> setup and maintains the Mesa Mailing list.
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| 109 |
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| 110 | <li><b>Randy Frank</b> contributed <em>many</em> bug fixes.
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| 111 |
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| 112 | <li><b>Stefan Zivkovic</b> wrote the Amiga driver.
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| 114 | <li><b>Stephane Rehel</b> provided the Cygnus Win32 support
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| 115 |
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| 116 | <li><b>Ted Jump</b> maintained the
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| 117 | makefiles and project files for Windows 95/98/NT compilation for some time.
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| 119 | <li><b>Uwe Maurer</b> wrote the LibGGI driver for Mesa-3.0.
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| 121 | <li><b>Victor Ng-Thow-Hing</b> wrote the Amiwin driver for the Amiga.
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| 123 | </ul>
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| 125 | <p>
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| 126 | Apologies to anyone who's been omitted.
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| 127 | Please send corrections and additions to Brian.
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