Acknowledgements
The following individuals and groups are to be acknowledged for their contributions to Mesa over the years. This list is far from complete and somewhat dated, unfortunately.
- Early Mesa development was done while Brian was part of the
SSEC Visualization Project <https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html>__ 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 website and Git repository are hosted by freedesktop.org.
- 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 was the www.mesa3d.org webmaster.
- Darren Abbott provided the OS/2 driver.
- David Bucciarelli wrote and maintained the 3Dfx Glide driver. Thousands of Linux/Quake players thank David!
- Gareth Hughes wrote new GLU 1.2 Polygon Tessellation code (now superseded by SGI SI GLU).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.
- Klaus Niederkrueger contributed many improvements to Mesa's software rasterizer.
- 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.