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Robert Osfield <robert@openscenegraph.com>
        - osg, osgUtil, osgText, osgSim and osgDB.
        - osg, osgText, pfb, 3ds, gif, jpeg, tiff, tga, pic, tgz & zip plugins.
        - sgv, various revisions, now most of code is in osgGLUT.
        - 2nd iteration of impostor implemtentation.
        - 2nd iteration of shadow occlusion culling.
        - documentation?!
        - visual studio workspace files/unix makefiles.
        - project adim & lead.

Don Burns <don@andesengineering.com>
        - Open Producer
        - unix makefiles.
        - osg (particularily OpenGL)
        - first version of sgv.
        - osghangglide database & osgtgz plugins.
        
Brede Johansen <bredej@email.com>
        - flt loader.
        - osg::Point.
        - osg::TextureCubeMap
        - osg::VertexProgram
        - assistance on visual studio workspace files.

Karsten Weiss <knweiss@gmx.de>
        - 1st iteration of impostor implemtentation.
        - rpm spec file.
        - documentation.
        - bug fixes.

Graeme Harkness <graeme@phys.strath.ac.uk>
        - osg::Vec2,Vec3,Vec4 & osg::Quat classes.
        - reworking of old sgv into osgGLUT and a slim line Demos/sgv.
        - Demos/cube.

Neil Salter <neil@nackle.org>
        - first incarnation of osgUtil, Camera and Manipulators.
        - web site.

Ben Discoe <ben@vterrain.org>
        - osgWX and wxsgv demos for integration of OSG with wxWindows.
        - png plugin.
        - fixes to OBJ plugin.

Marco Jez <marco.jez@arsenal.it>
        - osgParticle
        - IO support for osgText.

Randall Hopper <aa8vb@yahoo.com>
        - port to FreeBSD.
        - warning fixes to IRIX compilation.
        - Open DX writer.

Ulrich Hertlein <u.hertlein@bit-side.com>
        - support for IBM Mirror Repeat extension in osg::Texture
        - support for texture subloading in osg::Texture
        - osg::Sequence support.
        - improvements to the pfb loader.
        - .lwo, .obj and .x (DirectX model) plugins.
        - osg::TextureRectangle.

Axel Volley <volley@acm.org>
        - support for OBJECT_LINEAR and EYE_LINEAR TexGen modes.
        - support for the Anistropic texture filter extension.

Geoff Michel
        - .dw (design workshop) loader plugin.
        - .bmp (Windows Bitmap file) loader plugin.
        - .geo (Carbon Graphics GEO) loader plugin.
        - OpenGL based stats reporting added to osgGLUT::Viewer.
        
Mike Connell <mikec@vsect.chalmers.se>
        - First implementation of shadow occlusion culling.
        - improvements to 3ds plugin.

Phil Atkin <philatkin@philatkin.com>
        - MacOS X port.

Boris Bralo <boris.bralo@zg.tel.hr>
        - txp TerraPage loader.

Sasa Bistrovic <sasa.bistrovic@zg.hinet.hr>
        - option for detailed calculation of the near clipping plane during cull traversal.
        - osg::DOFTransform

Nikolaus Hanekamp <hanekamp@stn-atlas.de>
        - added support billboards to Open Flight loader.
 
Yefei He <yhe@nads-sc.uiowa.edu>
        - added support for nested extension, instance defination and reference
          to the Open Flight loader.
          
Norman Vine <nhv@cape.com>
        - Cygwin and Mingw ports.

Bob Kuehne <rpk@mac.com>
        - assistance with MacOSX port.
        
Kristopher Bixler <kbixler@mac.com>        
        - port to OSX's native dynamic library support.

Tino Schwarze <tino.schwarze@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
        -port to HP-UX.

Ruben Lopez <ryu@gpul.org>
        - Inventor ascii/VRML 1.0 loader.

Pavel Moloshtan <pasha@moloshtan.com>
        - Support for LWO2 format in the LightWave loader.

Daniel Sjölie <deepone@acc.umu.se>
        - Support for multitextured flt files.
           
Alberto Barbati <abarbati@iaanus.com>
        - lazy evaluation of the inverse in the MatrixTransform.

Gideon May <gideon@computer.org>
        - Fixed spacing in osgText.
        
Tree <tree@stain.org>
        - Support for encoded text types in osgText.

Vladimir Vukicevic <vladimir@pobox.com>
        - md2 loader.
        
Rune Schmidt Jensen <sphere@aub.dk>
        - dds loader.
        
Romano José Magacho da Silva <rmagacho@predialnet.com.br>
        - pause/resume in osgGA::AnimationPathManipulator
        - support for managing deleted vertex programs in osg::VertexProgram.
        
Indirect Contributors
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J.E. Hoffmann <je-h@gmx.net>
    - lib3ds library.
    
Systems in Motion <http://www.sim.no>
    Peder Blekken <pederb@sim.no>
    Morten Eriksen <mortene@sim.no>
    Marius Bugge Monsen <mariusbu@sim.no>
    - simage library which provide base for gif,jpg,pic,tga,tiff image loaders.
    
Janne Löf <jlof@mail.student.oulu.fi>
    - lw is a LightWave mesh reader, used to develop osgPlugins/lwo.

Nate Robins - http://www.pobox.com/~ndr/
    - glm file format reader, usedf to develop osgPlugin/obj. 

Bryan Walsh
    - original txp loader for sgl (scene graph library)
 
Terrex
    - the original base source for txp loader.

Tanguy Fautré <softdev@pandora.be>
    - tri_stripper code utilized in the src/osgUtil/TriStipVisitor.cpp.