| 1 | Cristy is the principal architect of ImageMagick and still maintains the |
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| 2 | ImageMagick distribution. |
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| 4 | We acknowledge the substantial contributions to the ImageMagick project by |
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| 5 | these gifted individuals (listed in alphabetical order): |
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| 7 | Kelly Bergougnoux |
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| 8 | Authored the Cineon image coder (based on the existing DPX source). |
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| 10 | Rod Bogart and John W. Peterson, University of Utah |
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| 11 | Image compositing is loosely based on rlecomp of the Utah Raster Toolkit. |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | Nathan Brown |
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| 14 | Original author of the JP2 coder. |
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| 16 | Mike Chiarappa |
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| 17 | Created a Borland C++ Builder 6.0 build environment for ImageMagick. |
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| 18 | |
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| 19 | Thomas R Crimmins |
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| 20 | Inventor of the eight hull algorithm used for speckle reduction. |
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| 21 | |
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| 22 | Troy Edwards |
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| 23 | Authored the source RPM spec file for ImageMagick. |
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| 24 | |
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| 25 | Jaroslav Fojtik |
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| 26 | Authored the CUT, ART, and MATLAB coder modules. |
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| 27 | |
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| 28 | Francis J. Franklin |
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| 29 | Ported the WMF coder to the libwmf 0.2 API. |
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| 30 | |
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| 31 | Markus Friedl |
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| 32 | Original author of Base64 encode/decode sources. |
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| 33 | |
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| 34 | Bob Friesenhahn |
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| 35 | Author of Magick++ (C++ API to ImageMagick). Author of module loader |
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| 36 | facility, automatic file identification (magic) support, Unix/Cygwin/MinGW |
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| 37 | configure/make facility, Windows setup.exe style installer, WMF renderer, |
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| 38 | C API documentation formatter, and the C, C++, and Perl test suites |
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| 39 | used by ImageMagick. |
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| 41 | Michael Halle, Spatial Imaging Group at MIT |
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| 42 | Contributed the initial implementation of Alan Paeth's image rotation |
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| 43 | algorithm. |
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| 44 | |
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| 45 | David Harr |
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| 46 | Contributed (with Leonard Rosenthol) dash pattern, linecap stroking |
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| 47 | algorithm, and minor rendering improvements. |
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| 48 | |
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| 49 | Christopher R. Hawks |
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| 50 | Authored the PALM coder. |
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| 52 | Paul Heckbert, Carnegie Mellon University |
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| 53 | Image resizing is loosely based on Paul Heckbert's Zoom program. |
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| 54 | |
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| 55 | Peder Langlo, Hewlett Packard |
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| 56 | Made hundreds of suggestions and bug reports. Without Peder, this software |
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| 57 | would not be nearly as useful as it is today. |
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| 58 | |
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| 59 | Rick Mabry |
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| 60 | Contributed code to support filling drawn objects using a pattern image. |
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| 61 | |
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| 62 | Catalin Mihaila |
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| 63 | Contributed a ZX-Spectrum SCREEN$ reader. |
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| 64 | |
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| 65 | David Pensak, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company |
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| 66 | For providing the computing environment that made developing ImageMagick |
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| 67 | possible. |
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| 69 | William Radcliffe |
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| 70 | Author of the VisualMagick project configure facility for Visual C++. |
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| 71 | Author of FlashPix module. Author of the EMF, XTRN, and META coders. |
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| 72 | Significant contributions to the MSL, JPEG, TIFF, SVG, and URL coders. |
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| 73 | Authored "process" module support. Wrote the micro-timer facility used by |
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| 74 | 'identify'. Ported module loader support to Windows. Significantly |
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| 75 | improved polygon rendering performance. |
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| 77 | Glenn Randers-Pehrson |
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| 78 | Contributed significantly to the utilities. Authored support for JNG, |
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| 79 | MNG, and PNG formats. Provided significant support for the BMP format. |
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| 80 | Significant improvements to the documentation, including creating a |
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| 81 | documentation authoring environment based on the <imdoc> format. |
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| 82 | |
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| 83 | Paul Raveling, USC Information Sciences Institute |
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| 84 | The spatial subdivision color reduction algorithm is based on his Img |
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| 85 | software. |
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| 86 | |
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| 87 | Leonard Rosenthol |
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| 88 | Authored the 'conjure' utility and associated MSL execution environment. |
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| 89 | Provided MacOS support. Authored the CLIPBOARD, XCF, and PSD coders. |
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| 90 | Postscript and PDF expertise. Significant drawing enhancements including |
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| 91 | support for dash patterns, linecap stroking, clipping masks and a mask |
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| 92 | image. |
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| 93 | |
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| 94 | Kyle Shorter |
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| 95 | Original author of PerlMagick. Author of the LOCALE coder. |
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| 96 | |
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| 97 | Lars Ruben Skyum |
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| 98 | Contributed the -clippath functionality, improved color profile support, |
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| 99 | and re-wrote the PS3 coder. |
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| 101 | Alvy Ray Smith and Eric Ray Lyons |
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| 102 | HWB color transform and algorithm. |
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| 104 | Michael Still and IBM developer Works |
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| 105 | For the excellant article, "Graphics from the command line". First |
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| 106 | published by IBM DeveloperWorks. |
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| 108 | Anthony Thyssen |
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| 109 | Designed the ImageMagick 6.0 command line processing with parenthesis, |
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| 110 | image sequence operators, and GIF animation processing. Wrote the |
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| 111 | image perspective distortions (-distort) and resampling methods. |
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| 112 | Maintains a comprehensive set of examples of using ImageMagick at |
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| 113 | http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/. |
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| 115 | Milan Votava |
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| 116 | Contributed support for Wireless BitMap, used in WAP - Wireless Access |
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| 117 | Protocol. |
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| 119 | Alexander Zimmermann |
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| 120 | Responsible for the ImageMagick Linux binary distributions for many years. |
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| 121 | His efforts are very much appreciated. |
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