-*- coding: utf-8 -*- BRL-CAD Contributors ==================== The BRL-CAD development team would like to take this opportunity to thank the many people and organizations who have contributed to make BRL-CAD the package it is today. BRL-CAD was originally conceived and written, for the most part, by the late Michael John Muuss. He is our original primary architect and author. His work lives on in testament to his intellect and indomitable spirit through the contributions and improvements by others. Over the years, Mike and the Advanced Computer Systems Team at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (* see note) as well as many others around the world worked on developing BRL-CAD. In December 2004, BRL-CAD development was opened and expanded with the conversion to Open Source. We strive to accurately and completely recognize the groups and individuals that have helped make BRL-CAD the package it is today. Contributors are grouped together and ordered chronologically with the earliest named first; likewise, the more recent contributors are listed at the bottom. Names are optionally followed by the date of their first contribution and a list of affiliations. Individuals supporting and contributing to the project on their own time and of their own accord have an affiliation listed as "Open Source". BRL-CAD is the collective effort of many contributors (** see note). Developers are characterized as individuals that have made substantial contributions (hundreds or even thousands of features) to the project over an extended period of time (years or even decades). Other contributor credits are organized into the following general categories depending on the level and type of involvement: * Mathematical, Algorithmic, and Geometric Support * Documentation, Artwork, and Website Contributors * Code Contributors * Special Thanks Participation and contributions are graciously appreciated and credited in following. ORIGINAL ARCHITECT AND AUTHOR ----------------------------- "The future exists first in the imagination, then in the will, then in reality." - Mike Muuss PROJECT ADMINISTRATORS ---------------------- Open Source Point of Contact Morrison, Christopher Sean U.S. Army Research Laboratory Point of Contact Yapp, Cliff DEVELOPERS ---------- Muuss, Michael John nicknames mike 1978 August (RCS: 1984 April) U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory U.S. Army Research Laboratory Applin, Keith A. 1982 U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Gwyn, Douglas A. nicknames gwyn 1986 January U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory U.S. Army Research Laboratory Dykstra, Phillip nicknames phil 1986 August U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory U.S. Army Research Laboratory Moss, Gary S. nicknames moss 1986 September U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory U.S. Army Research Laboratory Kennedy, Charles Michael nicknames kermit, g2asc 1986 November U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory U.S. Army Research Laboratory Stay, Paul Randal nicknames stay 1986 October U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory U.S. Army Research Laboratory University of Utah Hanes, Jeff U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory U.S. Army Research Laboratory Johnson, Christopher T. nicknames cjohnson 1989 February Cray Research, Inc. Geometric Solutions, Inc. Paladin Software JRMTech, Inc. Butler, Lee A. nicknames butler, lbutler 1989 July U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory U.S. Army Research Laboratory Tanenbaum, Paul J. nicknames pjt 1991 January U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory U.S. Army Research Laboratory Markowski, Michael J. nicknames mmark, mm 1991 June U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Durfee, Glenn Edward nicknames gdurf 1992 August ARL Student Hire / Carnegie Mellon University Anderson, John R. nicknames jra, johnranderson 1993 May U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory U.S. Army Research Laboratory Altus Engineering, Inc. Open Source Ross, Adam nicknames adam 1995 October Geometric Solutions, Inc. Parker, Robert G. ** nicknames include bparker, bob1961 1995 January U.S. Army Research Laboratory SURVICE Engineering, Inc. Open Source Morrison, Christopher Sean ** nicknames sean, morrison, brlcad 1998 December ARL Student Hire / Johns Hopkins University Quantum Research International, Inc. Open Source Bowers, Ronald Anthony nicknames rbowers 2001 March U.S. Army Research Laboratory Christy, TraNese Shantell nicknames tranese 2001 March U.S. Army Research Laboratory Hartley, Robert F. nicknames hartley 2002 August ARL Student Hire / Virginia Tech Shumaker, Justin nicknames twingy, justin 2003 June Quantum Research International, Inc. U.S. Army Research Laboratory Greenwald, Erik nicknames erikg, erikgreenwald 2003 November U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source Roßberg, Daniel ** nicknames d_rossberg 2005 June Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH (IABG) Open Source Yapp, Cliff ** nicknames starseeker 2007 September Open Source Quantum Research International, Inc. U.S. Army Research Laboratory Bowman, W. Keith ** nicknames indianlarry SURVICE Engineering, Inc. U.S. Army Research Laboratory Weiss, Richard nicknames r_weiss 2008 December U.S. Army Research Laboratory Browder, Thomas M. Jr. nicknames tbrowder2 2008 June ManTech International Corporation Open Source Reed, Nicholas ** nicknames n_reed 2008 July ARL Student Hire / University of Maryland, Baltimore County Quantum Research International, Inc. Moore, Jr., Carl G. nicknames cmoore, carlmoore 2011 October U.S. Army Research Laboratory MATHEMATICAL, ALGORITHMIC, AND GEOMETRIC SUPPORT ------------------------------------------------ Weaver, Earl P. 1980 U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Davisson, Edwin O. U.S. Army Research Laboratory Rogers, David U.S. Naval Academy Stiller, Peter 1987-1988 (unverified) Texas A&M University Reed, Harry Geometric Solutions, Inc. U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Applin, Keith A. U.S. Army Research Laboratory Kregel, Dwayne ** SURVICE Engineering, Inc. Weaver, Stephanie 'Rain' 2009 June ARL Student Hire / Bridgewater College DOCUMENTATION, ARTWORK, AND WEBSITE CONTRIBUTORS ------------------------------------------------ Weaver, Earl P. 1980 U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Schueler, Betty J. Edwards, Eric SURVICE Engineering, Inc. Open Source (Doc Camp) Kregel, Dwayne SURVICE Engineering, Inc. Leverington, Robert nicknames MinuteElectron 2007 June Open Source Harder, Brad nicknames yukonbob, bharder, bch 2007 September Method Logic Digital, Inc. Gettier, Janine 2008 October SURVICE Engineering, Inc. Ilya nicknames ilya 2008 December Open Source Giudice, Jesica nicknames jesica Nohla giudicejesica 2009 December Open Source Jansa, Pavel nicknames pawleeq 2011 November Open Source Mgebrova, Karen 2012 February Open Source Elnazli, Cezar nicknames caen23 2012 November Open Source (GCI) Burroughs, Jacob nicknames maths22 2012 November Open Source (GCI) Stoyanova, Stefi 2012 November Open Source (GCI) Perez, Alex 2012 November Open Source (GCI) Singh, Harmanpreet nicknames harmanpreet 2013 October Open Source (Doc Camp) Kamga, Isaac nicknames Izak, iiizzzaaakkk 2013 October Open Source (Doc Camp) Check, Nyah nicknames Ch3ck 2013 October Open Source (Doc Camp) Scott Nesbitt 2013 October Open Source (Doc Camp) Wood, David 2013 November Open Source (GCI) Agarwal, Yatharth 2013 November Open Source (GCI) McDonald, Rob 2013 November Open Source Tannous, Marc 2014 December Open Source (GCI) Chiplunkar, Shardul nicknames microchip, shardulc 2014 December Open Source (GCI) Juvekar, Mandar nicknames mandarj 2014 December Open Source (GCI) Sofat, Hitesh nicknames sofat 2015 June Open Source (GSoC) Sieu, Jeff 2017 December Open Source (GCI) CODE CONTRIBUTIONS ------------------ Kingston III, Douglas P. nicknames dpk 1983 December U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Hartwig, Jr., George W. U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Pistritto, Joseph C. U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Natalie, Ronald B. U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Toth, George E. U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Miles, Robert S. U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Reschly, Jr., Robert J. nicknames reschly 1986 May U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Mermagen, Jr., William nicknames wm U.S. Army Research Laboratory Barker, Natalie L. Eberius, Natalie L. U.S. Army Research Laboratory Becker, David Cray Research Muuss, Susanne L. nicknames sue 1989 February U.S. Ballistic Research Laboratory Dender, Daniel C U.S. Army Research Laboratory SURVICE Engineering, Inc. Hunt, Jim nicknames jehunt 1991 May Applied Research Associates, Inc. U.S. Army Research Laboratory Coates, Susan A. nicknames scoates 1991 September U.S. Ballistic Research Laboratory Ross, Brant A. General Motors, Inc. Lindemann, William Sun Microsystems, Inc. Smith, Timothy G. Sun Microsystems, Inc. Jackson, Christopher J. Sun Microsystems, Inc. Fiori, James D. Sun Microsystems, Inc. DiGiacinto, Tom U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Bowden, Mark Huston University of Alabama Suckling, Bob U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Gigante, Mike Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Dray, Adam Geometric Solutions, Inc. Nuzman, Carl J. nicknames cnuzman 1994 June ARL Student Hire / Princeton University Laut, Bill Gull Island Consultants, Inc. Hewitt, Terry Manchester-Computing Centre, UK Brand, Mario McCarty, Cormac nicknames mccarty 1998 July ARL Student Hire / Johns Hopkins University Owens, Jason nicknames jlowens, jlowenz 1998 July ARL Student Hire / Johns Hopkins University Yemc, David J. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Anderson, David SGI Garriques, Jr., Rick SURVICE Engineering, Inc. Gillich, Michael John nicknames mjgillich mgillich 2002 December U.S. Army Research Laboratory Howard, Doug nicknames dhoward SURVICE Engineering, Inc. 2006 April Silva, Prasad Prometheus nicknames prasad_silva 2006 May U.S. Army Research Laboratory James (swcto) Open Source Bonomo, Jonathan Open Source Myers, Timothy J. nicknames joevalleyfield 2007 April U.S. Army Research Laboratory Li, Dongxu nicknames dongxu_li dli 2007 April Open Source Poole, Ben nicknames poolio 2007 June ARL Student Hire / Carnegie Mellon University Godbey, David nicknames dgodbey 2008 March Altus Engineering, Inc. Montecelo, Manuel A. Fernandez nicknames mafm 2008 April Open Source (GSoC) Castelo, André nicknames andrecastelo 2008 May Open Source (GSoC) Van Ruitenbeek, Timothy nicknames pacman87 2008 May Open Source (GSoC) Thomas, Dawn nicknames homovulgaris, madant 2008 June Open Source (GSoC) Saunders, Benjamin nicknames Ralith, ralith 2008 July Open Source Knaute, Philip 2009 February Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH (IABG) Reeves, David D. nicknames dreeves 2009 April Open Source Kennedy, Stephen nicknames irpguardian 2009 June ARL Student Hire / University of Maryland, Baltimore County Shinn, Rob 2010 April Open Source nicknames Alexandrus 2010 July Open Source Hinesley, Brandon nicknames bhinesley 2011 March Open Source (GSoC) Kunigami, Guilherme nicknames kunigami 2011 March Open Source (GSoC) Jain, Sachin 2011 April Open Source Gerstner, Nick 2011 May SURVICE Engineering, Inc. Easterbrook, Zach nicknames lainiwakurax 2011 July Open Source Nandy, Abhijit nicknames abhi2011 2011 July Open Source (SOCIS) Silvko, Ksenija nicknames ksuzee 2012 March Open Source (GSoC) Dueck, Chris R. nicknames crdueck 2012 April Open Source (GSoC) Jianbang, Wu nicknames phoenix, phoenixyjll 2012 April Open Source (GSoC) Precup, Cristina nicknames cprecup 2012 April Open Source (GSoC) Murty, Anurag nicknames anrgmrty 2012 May Open Source (GSoC) Oezdogan, Mesut nicknames kane_ 2012 May Open Source (GSoC) Taylor, Alex nicknames Al_Da_Best, aldabest 2012 May Open Source (GSoC) Laijiren nicknames plussai2008 2012 June Open Source (GSoC) Niculaescu, Oana nicknames elf11 2012 August Open Source (SOCIS) Ungureanu, Silviu nicknames Silvrous 2012 November Open Source (GCI) Kashyap, Akshay nicknames Skriptkid 2012 November Open Source (GCI) Borisov, Dimitar 2012 November Open Source (GCI) Pal, Ambar 2012 November Open Source (GCI) Elnazli, Cezar nicknames caen23 2012 November Open Source (GCI) Huang, Michael nicknames fernozzle 2012 November Open Source (GCI) nicknames Reikaze 2012 December Open Source (GCI) Phillips, Lachlan 2012 December Open Source (GCI) Calle, Adrián Arroyo 2012 December Open Source (GCI) Keesing, Aaron nicknames agkphysics 2012 December Open Source (GCI) Govindjee, Arjun 2012 December Open Source (GCI) Ramirez, Daniel nicknames javamonn 2012 December Open Source (GCI) Nagy, Csaba nicknames ncsaba 2013 April Open Source Check, Nyah nicknames Ch3ck 2013 July Open Source (GSoC) Shah, Kesha nicknames keshashah 2013 April Open Source (GSoC) Bogolin, Vlad nicknames vladbogo 2013 May Open Source (GSoC) Kaur, Avneet nicknames avneetkhalsa 2013 May Open Source (GSoC) Daga, Mohit nicknames zero_level, mohitdaga 2013 June Open Source (GSoC) Kamga, Isaac nicknames Izak, iiizzzaaakkk 2013 July Open Source (GSoC) Singh, Harmanpreet nicknames harmanpreet 2013 May Open Source (GSoC) Huff, Emory nicknames hknoll 2013 July ARL Student Hire Engbert, Jonathan nicknames ejno 2013 July Open Source ARL Student Hire / University of Maryland, Baltimore County Andrew 2013 November Open Source (GCI) Schulte, Johannes 2013 November Open Source (GCI) Amidon, Peter nicknames peter-sa, Andromeda Galaxy 2013 November Open Source (GCI) Chiplunkar, Shardul nicknames microchip 2013 November Open Source (GCI) Берегов, Станислав 2013 December Open Source (GCI) nicknames huskmate13 2014 January Open Source Granroth, Gustave 2014 May Open Source Jain, Rishub 2014 July ARL Student Hire Roberts, Mitchell 2014 July ARL Student Hire Bayes, Matthew nicknames klinger4077 2014 July ARL Student Hire / University of Maryland College Park Mirea, Ștefan-Gabriel 2014 October Open Source Krishna 2015 January Open Source (GCI) Konrad, Djimeli 2015 February Open Source Alexandre da Silva Costa, Vasco nicknames vasco_costa 2015 April Open Source (GSoC) Thakkar, Kalpit nicknames dracarys983 2015 May Open Source (GSoC) Ilinca, Andrei nicknames andrei_il 2015 June Open Source (GSoC) Sofat, Hitesh nicknames sofat 2015 June Open Source (GSoC) Hollister, Brad nicknames bhollister 2015 July Open Source (GSoC) Hanji, Param 2016 March Open Source (GSoC) Wu, Bojian 2016 June Open Source (GSoC) Bagavathy, Rakshika nicknames tandoorichick 2016 October Open Source (GSoC) Gao, Tianyue 2016 December Open Source (GCI) Rathore, Shubham nicknames gabbar1947 2017 April Open Source nicknames Rakete1111 2017 November Open Source Narayan, Saran nicknames sharannyn 2018 April Open Source (GSoC) Shinde, Chetan nicknames chetanshinde911 2019 April Open Source (GSoC) Haydar, Ali nicknames lois221 2019 May Open Source (GSoC) Suthar, Rishabh nicknames yamhai, rishabhsuthar32 2020 March Open Source (GSoC) Vaidya, Sahil nicknames sahilvaidya99 2020 April ARL Student Hire / University of Texas at Austin Das, Sumagna nicknames sumagnadas 2020 May Open Source Atreya, Vikram nicknames vikram-atreya 2020 October Open Source SPECIAL THANKS -------------- Weaver, Earl P. 1980 U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Henrikson, Bruce U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Wolff, Stephen U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Stanley, Charles U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Deitz, Paul U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Kuehl, Gary U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Martin, Glenn E. Northrop Research and Technology Center Willson, Stephen Hunter Northrop Research and Technology Center Merritt, Don nicknames merritt 1988 September U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory zum Brunnen, Rick U.S. Army Research Laboratory Smith, Jill U.S. Army Research Laboratory Monk, Mary U.S. Army Research Laboratory Spencer, Thomas W. University of Utah Buckley, Stephen nicknames steveb 1988 August U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory McKie, Jim Davies, Steve Turkowski, Ken Woods, James A. Orost, Joseph Strausser, Robert L. SURVICE Engineering, Inc. Lorenzo, Max CECOM Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate Dome, John CECOM Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate Florek, David CECOM Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate Stoudenmire, Eugene A. CECOM Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate Kekesi, Alex CECOM Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate Pronk, Sander TNO Prins Maurits Laboratory Moulton, Jr., Russ EOSoft, Inc. (CECOM) Reed, Jr., Harry U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Slattery, Terry nicknames tcs 1989 October U.S. Naval Academy Satterfield, Steve U.S. Naval Academy Johnson, Joe U.S. Naval Academy Woo, Alex University of Illinois Musgrave, F. Kenton Skinner, Robert Sebok, William L. Grosh, John nicknames jgrosh 1993 October U.S. Army Research Laboratory Haywood, Heather U.S. Army Research Laboratory Ousterhout, John Williams, John P. QUADRA Enterprises Bokkers, Wim TNO Prins Maurits Laboratory Giffuni, Pedro Open Source Thomas, Balbir Open Source Remenak, Daniel T. nicknames DTRemenak, Erroneous, dtremenak 2005 July California Institute of Technology Open Source Caruso, Mike Qryon LLC Arunaogun, Razak Qryon LLC Butkiewicz, Mark SURVICE Engineering, Inc. Kulhavy, Karel nicknames clock3 Open Source Jacobs, Jan-Pieter nicknames jpjacobs 2006 November Open Source Fiedler, Stefan Open Source Chang, Loui nicknames louipc 2007 August Open Source Nabazas, Aldas 2007 Open Source Markus Elfring 2007 Open Source Ed Schouten 2007 Open Source Bautu, Elena nicknames ebautu 2008 April Open Source Hocevar, Samuel nicknames sam, sammy 2008 July Open Source Clubley, Simon 2008 August Open Source Iuculano, Giuseppe nicknames devrevko 2008 September Open Source Saika, Nikolai nicknames nicksaika 2008 November Open Source Le, Van Hoa 2009 February Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) Tegtmeyer, Michael 2009 July U.S. Army Research Laboratory Devanney, Jack 2009 November Open Source Emton nicknames imcbml 2009 November Open Source Mann, Cary 2009 December ITT Corporation Lundahl, Östen 2010 May Open Source Horn, Niels nicknames niels.horn 2010 May Open Source Bishop, Bryan 2010 June Open Source Lamaita, Luciano 2010 June Open Source Anckaert, André 2010 July Open Source Sayol, Jordi nicknames epileg, jordisayol 2011 January Open Source Pitts, Christopher M. nicknames cmpitts 2011 August Open Source Wang, Max nicknames wmaanxg 2012 October Open Source Ha, An Tuan 2012 December Open Source (GCI) Singh, Gauravjeet 2012 December Open Source (GCI) Saxena, Amit nicknames amit.daBeast 2012 December Open Source (GCI) Saini, Talwinder nicknames talwindersaini 2013 July Open Source YuGin, Tan 2013 November Open Source (GCI) nicknames mandar 2013 December Open Source (GCI) Lotsu, Alexander nicknames Alex 2013 December Open Source (GCI) Hyams, Daniel nicknames dhyams 2014 February Open Source Reddy, Raj nicknames raj12lnm 2014 May Open Source Malhotra, Shivoam nicknames shiv05 2015 March Open Source Chepkwony, Benson nicknames bchepkwny 2015 December Open Source Sagarwal 2017 January Open Source (GCI) Liu, Jeffrey 2019 December Open Source (GCI) CORPORATE AND ORGANIZATION SUPPORT ---------------------------------- U.S. Army Research Laboratory formerly named the U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Survivability and Lethality Analysis Directorate Sun Microsystems, Inc. University of Alabama in Huntsville U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate U.S. Naval Academy Northrop Corporation Northrop Research and Technology Center SGI formerly named Silicon Graphics, Inc. Geometric Solutions, Inc. JRMTech, Inc. SURVICE Engineering, Inc. Quantum Research Laboratory, Inc. Paladin Software, Inc. Manchester-Computing-Centre, UK Computer Graphics Unit, MCC Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH (IABG) TNO Prins Maurits Laboratory Free Software Foundation Open Source Technology Group SourceForge.net, freshmeat.net Qryon LLC NEWS ARTICLES ------------- Muuss, Mike "The BRL-CAD Package." Ray Tracing News. Vol 2, No 2. 1989/02/20 "Designing with BRL-CAD." ITWorld.com, Linux Desktop Applications. 2000/12/14 Wasmund, Thomas L. "New Model to Evaluate Weapon Effects and Platform Vulnerability: AJEM." WSTIAC NEWSLETTER. Vol 2, No 4. 2001/09 Jackson, Joab "Open for business." Government Computer News. Vol 24, No 13. 2005/06/06 --- * The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) was formerly named the U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL). Persons who contributed entirely before the name change reflect the original name, whereas persons who continued or began contributions after the name change reflect the new name. ** The individual is an active contributor, participating in BRL-CAD development within the past 12 months with numerous contributions. If any corrections or additions need to be made, please contact one of the active core developers. Additionally, you may send inquiries, suggestions, and comments to the developer mailing list: brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net