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xviii Preface
Kirk, Alex Klimovitski, Jason Knipe, Je↵ 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 Ramamoorthi, Ashutosh Rege, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Chr i s Seitz,
Carlo S´equin, Jonathan Shade, Brian Smits, John Spitzer, Wolfgang Straßer, Wolf-
gang St¨urzlinger, Philip Taylor, Pierre Terdiman, Nicolas Thibieroz, Jack Tumblin,
Fredrik Ulfves, Thatcher Ulrich, Steve Upstill, Alex Vlachos, Ingo Wald, Ben Wat-
son, Steve Westin, Dan Wexler, Matthias Wloka, Peter Woytiuk, David Wu, Garrett
Young, Bor u t Zalik, Harold Zatz, Hansong Zhang, and Denis Zorin. We also wi s h to
thank the journal ACM Transactions on Graphics for providing a mirror website for
this book.
Alice and Klaus Peters, our production manager Ariel Ja↵ee, our editor Heather
Holcombe, our copyeditor Michelle M. Richards, and the rest of the sta↵ at A K Peters
have done a wonderful job making this book the best possible. Our than ks to all of you.
Finally, and most importantly, our deepest thanks go to our families for giving us
the huge amounts of quiet time we have needed to complete this edition. Hones t ly,
we never thought i t would take this long!
Tomas Akenine-M¨oll e r
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 willingly gave the benefit
of their expertise, helping to significantly improve both content and style. We wish
to thank (in al p habetical order) Thomas Barregren, Michael Cohen, Walt Donovan,
Angus Dor bi e , Michael Garland, Stefan Gottschalk, Ned Greene, Ming C . Lin, Jason
L. Mitchell, Liang Peng, Keith Rule, Ken Shoemake, John Stone, Phil Taylor, Ben
Trumbore, Jorrit Tyberghein, and Nick Wilt. We cannot thank you enough.
Many other people contributed their time and labor to this proj ec t. 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 liste d above, we wish
to acknowledge the help of Tony Barkans, Daniel Baum, Nelson Beebe, Curtis Bee-
son, Tor Berg, David Blythe, Chas. Boyd, Don Britt ai n, Ian Bullard, Javier Castellar,
Satyan Coorg, Jason Della Rocca, Paul Diefenbach, Aly ssa Donovan, Dave Eberly,
Kells Elmquist, Stu art Fel dm an, Fred Fishe r , Tom Forsyth, Marty Franz, Thomas
Funkhouser, Andrew 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, Subodh Kumar,
Andr´e LaMothe, Je↵ Lander, Jens Larsson, Jed Lengyel, Fredrik Liliegren, David Lue-
bke, Thomas Lundqvist, Tom McReynolds, Stan Melax, Don Mitchell, Andr´e M¨oller,