6.2. Contribution

6.2. Contribution
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It would be impossible to create MegaPOV without the outstanding amount of work of all contributors listed below:

Michael Andrews

idea for randomized radiosity sample directions

Christophe Bouffartigue

christophe.bouffartigue@nanterre.marelli.fr

http://tofbouf.free.fr

cloth-ray module

Chris Colefax

MegaPOV icon design

John Haggerty

http://www.slimeland.com/

bug-fix for accuracy in normal statement
smooth height field bugfix

Christoph Hormann

<chris_hormann@gmx.de>

http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/

mechanics simulation system
HDR (High Dynamic Range) image write support (see Section 2.1.2, “HDR (High Dynamic Range) image output”)
Radiosity improvements (see Section 2.7.2, “Radiosity”)
Normal modifier for transforms (see Section 2.2.7.1, “The normal modifier for transforms”)
Improved read support for 16 bit images

Chris Huff

<cjameshuff@earthlink.net>

http://home.earthlink.net/~cjameshuff/

#set keyword (see Section 2.2.1.1, “Set directive”)
glow (see Section 2.5.1, “Glow”)
displace warp (see Section 2.6.4, “Displace warp for patterns”)
listed pattern (see Section 2.6.2, “Listed pattern”)
noise pigment (see Section 2.6.5, “Noise pigment”)

Jurjen

transparent inverted normals

Kari Kivisalo

film exposure simulation (see Section 2.7.1, “Film exposure simulation”)

Nathan Kopp

Nathan@Kopp.com

http://www.nathan.kopp.com

unofficial version blocking system

Vahur Krouverk

vkrouverk at starman.ee

http://www.profitsoftware.ee/fv/vkhomep.nsf/

minor additions for Borland compiler

Mael

halton distribution for radiosity sampling
reading function for HDR (High Dynamic Range) images (see Section 2.6.6, “HDR (High Dynamic Range) image type”)
Angle of incidence pattern (see Section 2.6.1, “Angle of incidence”)
Projection pattern (see Section 2.6.3, “Projection pattern”)

Maciej Matysiak

hosting

Micha Riser

mriser@gmx.net

boundings in inside tests (see Section 2.4.1.1, “Bounding used in inside tests”)

Włodzimierz ABX Skiba

<abx@abx.art.pl>

http://www.abx.art.pl/pov/patches/

warning free sources
shared gray calculations
minor changes in parametric sources
New spline types:
- sor_spline type in splines (see Section 2.2.6.1, “spline follows sor”)
- akima_spline (see Section 2.2.6.2, “akima spline”)
- tcb_spline (see Section 2.2.6.3, “tcb spline”)
- x splines: basic_x_spline, general_x_spline and extended_x_spline (see Section 2.2.6.4, “x splines”)
spline accessed like array (see Section 2.2.6.5, “Spline accessed like array”)
f_triangle internal function (see Section 2.2.4.1, “f_triangle”)
additional tokens in function syntax (see Section 2.2.2.1, “Additional tokens in function syntax”)
polynomial solver in parser (see Section 2.2.5, “Polynomial solver in parser”)
Frame_Step feature (see Section 2.1.1, “Frame_Step”)
changed behavior of radiosity cache in animation (see Section 2.7.2.1, “Cache file”)
string function with numbered output filename (see Section 2.2.3.3, “Filename with frame number”)
new user_defined camera projection type (see Section 2.3.1, “user_defined camera type”)
new camera_view pigment type (see Section 2.6.7, “New camera_view pigment”)
sizes of images measurement (see Section 2.2.3.4, “Sizes of images”)
measurement of dimensions in vectors (see Section 2.2.3.5, “Dimensions of vectors”)
type checking (see Section 2.2.3.6, “Type checking”)
post processing feature (see Section 2.7.4, “Post processing”)

Yvo & René Smellenbergh

<smellenbergh@skynet.be>

http://users.skynet.be/smellenbergh/

multi-platform line feed
max_gradient message correction
time measurement
text object alignment

Massimo Valentini

correct assign functions for colors in some cases
bugfix for Copy_Flag

Thomas Willhalm

http://www.thomas.willhalm.de/

fur patch (see Section 2.5.3, “Fur”)

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