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