Advanced Rendering Toolkit
Authors

The following people are - or have been working - on ART, along with their primary contributions.

Main Authors

Robert F. Tobler <rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at>

Concept
Software architecture & design
Kernel, raycaster, ray tracer, BRDF, texturing, and radiosity (as well as almost anything else to at least some degree :-).

Alexander Wilkie <wilkie@cg.tuwien.ac.at>

Software architecture & design
Kernel, cyclic scene graphs, radiosity, colour system, spectral rendering, polarization support and tone mapping.

Module Authors

The following people (who are listed in no particular order) have so far implemented various modules for ART. An asterisk (*) denotes that the particular module is currently not integrated into the main internal ART version, while a minus (-) shows modules which have been superceded by newer code.

Jan Prikryl <prikryl@cg.tuwien.ac.at>

Distribution ray tracing, constant radiance (*), and tone mapping.

Heinrich Hey <hey@cg.tuwien.ac.at>

Photon map based rendering
Importance sampling with photon and viewparticle maps
Light tracing
BSDFs
Networking.

Walter Haschka <haschka@cg.tuwien.ac.at>

NURBS (short acronym, big gain :-).

Günter Erhart <erhart@cg.tuwien.ac.at>

Initial OpenGL support.

Stefan Maierhofer <sm@cg.tuwien.ac.at>

Volume tracing, cyclic scene graphs, meshes, subdivision surfaces.

Stefan Hynst <hynst@cg.tuwien.ac.at>

Initial gcc/AMS port to LINUX.
Initial texturing implementation (-).
Initial distribution ray tracing implementation.

Thomas Theußl <theussl@cg.tuwien.ac.at>

Initial RIB parser (*).

Wolfgang Freund

Initial VRML 1.0 parser (*).

Robert Stepanek <rost@cg.tuwien.ac.at>

POVray scene file format parser (*).
Maintenance of VRML 1.0 parser (*).

Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceh@cg.tuwien.ac.at>

Initial network rendering capabilites (*).

Thomas Hikade <hikade@cg.tuwien.ac.at>

Bump mapping.

Markus Probst <schani@unix.cslab.tuwien.ac.at>

Initial AMS/MacOS-X-Server port, Alpha/Linux port.

Contributors

Helwig Hauser (formerly known as L"offelmann) <helwig@cg.tuwien.ac.at>

Important help in the desgin of the original C++ Basics, Math, and Graphics libraries.
original C++ implementation of the DAG.

Thomas Galla <galla@cg.tuwien.ac.at>

original C++ implementation of the DAG

This page is maintained by Alexander Wilkie. It was last updated on September 26, 2001.
If you have any comments, please send a message to wilkie@cg.tuwien.ac.at.