1 Cristy is the principal architect of ImageMagick and still maintains the
2 ImageMagick distribution.
4 We acknowledge the substantial contributions to the ImageMagick project by
5 these gifted individuals (listed in alphabetical order):
8 Authored the Cineon image coder (based on the existing DPX source).
10 Rod Bogart and John W. Peterson, University of Utah
11 Image compositing is loosely based on rlecomp of the Utah Raster Toolkit.
14 Original author of the JP2 coder.
17 Created a Borland C++ Builder 6.0 build environment for ImageMagick.
20 Inventor of the eight hull algorithm used for speckle reduction.
23 Authored the source RPM spec file for ImageMagick.
26 Authored the CUT, ART, and MATLAB coder modules.
29 Ported the WMF coder to the libwmf 0.2 API.
32 Original author of Base64 encode/decode sources.
35 Author of Magick++ (C++ API to ImageMagick). Author of module loader
36 facility, automatic file identification (magic) support, Unix/Cygwin/MinGW
37 configure/make facility, Windows setup.exe style installer, WMF renderer,
38 C API documentation formatter, and the C, C++, and Perl test suites
41 Michael Halle, Spatial Imaging Group at MIT
42 Contributed the initial implementation of Alan Paeth's image rotation
46 Contributed (with Leonard Rosenthol) dash pattern, linecap stroking
47 algorithm, and minor rendering improvements.
50 Authored the PALM coder.
52 Paul Heckbert, Carnegie Mellon University
53 Image resizing is loosely based on Paul Heckbert's Zoom program.
55 Peder Langlo, Hewlett Packard
56 Made hundreds of suggestions and bug reports. Without Peder, this software
57 would not be nearly as useful as it is today.
60 Contributed code to support filling drawn objects using a pattern image
61 and major improvements to the web page (both content and appearance).
64 Contributed a ZX-Spectrum SCREEN$ reader.
66 David Pensak, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
67 For providing the computing environment that made developing ImageMagick
70 Chantal Racette and Nicolas Robidoux, Laurentian University
71 New ellipse clamping method and vertical/horizontal line
72 preserving filters (Robidoux, LanczosSharp and Lanczos2DSharp)
73 for Elliptical Weighted Average resampling. Efficient filter
74 kernel computation (sped up Sinc, Blackman and Bohman).
77 Author of the VisualMagick project configure facility for Visual C++.
78 Author of FlashPix module. Author of the EMF, XTRN, and META coders.
79 Significant contributions to the MSL, JPEG, TIFF, SVG, and URL coders.
80 Authored "process" module support. Wrote the micro-timer facility used by
81 'identify'. Ported module loader support to Windows. Significantly
82 improved polygon rendering performance.
85 Contributed significantly to the utilities. Authored support for JNG,
86 MNG, and PNG formats. Provided significant support for the BMP format.
87 Significant improvements to the documentation, including creating a
88 documentation authoring environment based on the <imdoc> format.
90 Paul Raveling, USC Information Sciences Institute
91 The spatial subdivision color reduction algorithm is based on his Img
95 Authored the 'conjure' utility and associated MSL execution environment.
96 Provided MacOS support. Authored the CLIPBOARD, XCF, and PSD coders.
97 Postscript and PDF expertise. Significant drawing enhancements including
98 support for dash patterns, linecap stroking, clipping masks and a mask
102 Original author of PerlMagick. Author of the LOCALE coder.
105 Contributed the -clippath functionality, improved color profile support,
106 and re-wrote the PS3 coder.
108 Alvy Ray Smith and Eric Ray Lyons
109 HWB color transform and algorithm.
111 Michael Still and IBM developer Works
112 For the excellant article, "Graphics from the command line". First
113 published by IBM DeveloperWorks.
116 Designed the ImageMagick 6.0 command line processing with parenthesis,
117 image sequence operators, and GIF animation processing. Wrote the
118 image perspective distortions (-distort) and resampling methods.
119 Maintains a comprehensive set of examples of using ImageMagick at
120 http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/.
123 Contributed support for Wireless BitMap, used in WAP - Wireless Access
127 Responsible for the ImageMagick Linux binary distributions for many years.
128 His efforts are very much appreciated.