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1.2 Polygon Tessellation code (now superceded by SGI SI GLU).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