Aqsis Renderer - An open source 3D rendering solution adhering to the RenderMan standard.

The following people have contributed to the development of Aqsis Renderer:

    1998 Paul C. Gregory        pgregory@aqsis.org
                                Originator and primary developer.
    2001 Timothy M. Shead       tshead@k-3d.com
                                Linux port.
                                librib2.
    2001 Lionel Joseph Lacour   Linux port.
                                libri2rib.
                                Binary RIB support.
                                gzipped RIB support.
    2001 Patrick Mauritz        Linux port.
    2001 Patrick Pelletier      Supplied libargparse and general development.
    2001 Kelly Brock            General development and optimisation.
    2001 Matthias Baas          General development and optimisation.
    2001 Michel Joron           Image shaders support.
                                aqsltell.
                                Texture mapping, cache mechanism.
                                Texture file conversion plugins.
                                Latlong envionment mapping.
                                Teapot primitive.
                                Blobby support.
                                Bunny primitive.
    2001 Kirk Bailey            Supplied PP C preprocessor.
    2001 Andy Gill              buzz@ucky.com
                                Occlusion culling.
    2001 Thomas Burge           RiSkew support.
                                RiPerspective support.
                                Cell noise.
                                Pixel filters.
                                Teapot primitive (initial work).
    2002 Doug Ward              Mac OS X port.
                                libslxargs.
    2002 Jonathan Merritt       RiCurves.
    2002 Will Newton            Posix port.
    2002 Andrew J. Bromage      RiDetail support.
                                RiMatte support.
    2002 Matthäus G. Chajdas    Documentation.
                                Web site.
                                Various changes to information output.
    2003 Tristan Colgate        DSO shadeop support.
                                RiProcedural.
                                RiDelayedReadArchive.
    2004 Tobias Sauerwein       Fedora RPM package.
                                OS X bundle.
    2005 Leon Tony Atkinson     latkinson@aqsis.org
                                Windows installer improvements.
                                Infrastructure.
                                Example management.
                                Website.
                                Documentation.
                                eqsl.
    2005 Stefan Gustavson       Re-implemented 2D/3D/4D noise.
    2006 Romain Behar           Blobby support.
    2006 Marcus Rückert         Linux package management via openSUSE Build Service.
    2006 Chris Foster           Unix build support for SCons.
                                General development; optimization and bugfixing.
                                aqsistex texture library rewrite.
                                Smooth shading interpolation.
    2009 Daniel Walters         GSoC Student 2009, network rendering.
    2009 Trevor Lovett          GSoC Student 2009, optimisation.
    2009 Ricardo Mayor          General Development and bugfixing.
    2009 Fabrice Coutadeur      Ubuntu package.

Special thanks also goes to the following people:

    2007 Eric Nathen Back       RIB MOSAIC support.
    2008 Stephen Regelous       Massive software support.
    2009 Cristin Barghiel       Side Effects Houdini support.

If anyone is missing from this list, please contact: pgregory@aqsis.org