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Kirk, Alex Klimovitski, Jason Knipe, Jeff Lander, Marc Levoy, J.P. Lewis, Ming Lin,
Adrian Lopez, Michael McCool, Doug McNabb, Stan Melax, Ville Miettinen, Kenny
Mitchell, Steve Morein, Henry Moreton, Jerris Mungai, Jim Napier, George Ngo, Hu-
bert Nguyen, Tito Pag´an, J¨org Peters, Tom Porter, Emil Praun, Kekoa Proudfoot,
Bernd Raabe, Ravi Ramamoor t hi , Ashutosh Rege, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Chris Seitz,
Carlo S´equin, Jonathan Shade, Brian Sm i ts , John Spitzer, Wolfgang Straßer, Wolf-
gang St¨urzlinger, Philip Taylor, Pierre Terdiman, Nicolas Thibieroz, Jack Tumblin,
Fredrik Ul f ves, Thatcher Ulrich, Steve Upstill, Alex Vlachos, Ingo Wald, Ben Wat-
son, Steve Westin, Dan Wexler, Matthias Wloka, Peter Woytiuk, David Wu, Garrett
You ng, Borut Zalik, Harold Zatz, Hansong Zhang, and Denis Zorin. We also wish to
thank the journal ACM Transactions on Graphics for providing a mirror website for
this book.
Alice and Klaus Peters, our production manager Ariel Jaffee , our editor Heather
Holcombe, our copyeditor Michelle M. Richards, and the rest of the staff at A K Peters
have done a wonderful job making t hi s book the best possible. Ou r thanks to all of you.
Finally, and most importantly, our deepest thanks go to our famil ie s for giv i ng us
the huge amounts of quiet time we have needed to complete this editi on . Honestly,
we never thought it would take this long!
Tom as Akenine-M¨oller
Eric Haines
May 2002
Acknowledgments for the First Edition
Many people helped in making this book. Some of the greatest contributions were
made by those who reviewed parts of it. The reviewers wi l li n gl y gave the benefit
of their exp er t is e, helping to significantly improve both content an d style. We wi sh
to thank (in alphabetical order) Thomas Bar r egr en , Michael Cohen, Walt Don ovan,
Angus Dorbie, Michael Garland, Stefan Gottschalk, Ned Greene, Ming C. Lin, Jason
L. Mitchell, Liang Peng, Keith Rule, Ken Shoemake, John Stone, Phil Taylor, Ben
Tr u mb ore , Jorrit Tyberghein, and Nick Wilt. We cannot thank you enough.
Many other people contributed their time and labor to this project. Some let us use
images, others provided models, still others pointed out important resources or con-
nected us with people who could help. In addition to the people listed above, we wish
to acknowledge the hel p of Tony Barkans, Daniel Baum, Nelson Beebe , Curtis Bee-
son, Tor Berg, David Blythe, Chas. Boyd, Don Brittain, Ian Bullard, Javier Castellar,
Satyan Coorg, Jason Della Rocc a, Paul Diefenbach, Alyssa Donovan, Dave Eberl y,
Kells Elmquist, Stuart Feldman, Fred Fisher, Tom Forsyth, Marty Franz, Thomas
Funkhouser, Andr ew Glassner, Bruce Gooch, Larry Gritz, Robert Grzeszczuk, Paul
Haeberli, Evan Hart, Paul Heckbert, Chris Hecker, Joachim Helenklaken, Hugues
Hoppe, John Jack, Mark Kilgard, David Kirk, James Klosowski, Subod h Kumar,
Andr´e LaMothe, Jeff Lander, Jens Larsson, Jed Lengyel, Fredrik Liliegre n, David Lue-
bke, Thomas Lundqvist, Tom McReynolds, Stan Melax, Don Mitchell, Andr´e M¨oller,
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