1.5.3 The POV-Team

Following is a list in alphabetic order of all people who have ever worked on the POV-Ray Team or who have made a note-worthy contribution.

Current POV-Team Members

Chris Cason

Member 1993-, Team leader 1999-, windows version author, other contributions

Nicolas Calimet

3.6 UNIX development

Dale C. Brodin

Alpha & Beta tester, forum support

Alexander Enzmann

POV-Ray 1.0/2.0/3.0 developer

Thorsten Fröhlich

Mac developer

Christoph Hormann

3.6 UNIX development

Alan Kong

Alpha & Beta tester, forum support

Nathan Kopp

Photons, u/v mapping, other contributions.

Lutz Kretzschmar

Moray author, MS-DOS 24-bit VGA, part of the anti-aliasing code

Ron Parker

Core code, jack-of-all-trades

Anton Raves

Alpha & Beta tester, Mac contributor

Erkki Sondergaard

Alpha & Beta tester, 3.0 Scene files

Past POV-Team Members and other Contributors

Claire Amundsen

Tutorials for the POV-Ray User Guide

Steve Anger

POV-Ray 2.0/3.0 developer

Randy Antler

MS-Dos display code enhancements

John Baily

RLE targa code

Eric Barish

Ground fog code

Thomas Baier

3.1 team member, tester

Dieter Bayer

Wrote sor, lathe, prism, media and many other features

Anthony Bennett

Scene files, documentation

Kendall Bennett

PMODE library support, paletted display code in Windows version

Steve Bennett

GIF support

Thomas Bily

Implicit and parametric surfaces

Eric Brown

no_image, no_reflection, orient and circular area_light

Matthew Corey Brown

pigment function, warps, projected_through

David Buck

Original author of DKBTrace, POV-Ray 1.0 developer

Edward Coffey

Fade_color

Aaron Collins

Co-author of DKBTrace 2.12, POV-Ray 1.0 developer

Chris Dailey

POV-Ray 3.0 developer

Steve Demlow

POV-Ray 3.0 developer

Andreas Dilger

Former Unix coordinator, Linux developer, PNG support

Joris van Drunen Littel

Mac beta tester

Dan Farmer

POV-Ray 1.0/2.0/3.0 developer, author of many features, sample scenes, and textures

Daniel Fenner

Splines

Hans-Detlev Fink

Slope pattern

Charles Fusner

Blob, lathe and prism tutorial tutorials for the POV-Ray User Guide

Mark Gordon

Unix developer

Jérôme Grimbert

Mapping warps

David Harr

Mac balloon help and palette code

Michael Hazelgrove

Scene files

Jimmy Hoeks

Original Help file for v3.0 Windows user interface

Christoph Hormann

Scene & include files, documentation, insert menu

Chris Huff

Object pattern, Interior texture, inverse transform

Bob Hughes

Scene and include files, insert menu

Ingo Janssen

Scene & include files, documentation

Mike Hough

Spherical camera, Media method 2, uv_mapping for bicubic_patch

Rune S. Johansen

Scene & include files, documentation

Greg M. Johnson

Scene files

Terry Kanakis

Camera fix

Kari Kivisalo

Ground fog code

Tor Olav Kristensen

Scene files

Jochen Lippert

Sphere_sweep

Charles Marslett

MS-Dos display code

Pascal Massimino

Fractal objects

Jim McElhiney

POV-Ray 3.0 developer

Robert A. Mickelsen

Artist, 3.0 docs contributor

Mike Miller

Artist, scene files, stones.inc

Fabien Mosen

Scene & include files

Douglas Muir

Bump maps, height fields

Joel Newkirk

Former Amiga developer

Juha Nieminen

Fractal patterns

Jim Nitchals

Mac version, scene files (Jim - famous also for his anti-spam crusades - passed away on 5 June 1998 but his contributions to POV-Ray and responsible use of the internet will not be forgotten)

Paul Novak

Texture contributions

Wolfgang Ortmann

Splines

Dave Park

Amiga support, AGA video code

Redaelli Paolo

Former Amiga developer

David Payne

RLE targa code

Ansgar Philippsen

Smooth color triangle

Bill Pulver

Time code

Dan Richardson

3.0 Docs

Tim Rowley

PPM and Windows-specific BMP image format support

Eduard Schwan

Former Mac version coordinator, mosaic preview, docs

Daniel Skarda

Implicit and parametric surfaces

Robert Skinner

Noise functions

Yvo & René Smellenbergh

Clock & Image_size keywords

Ryoichi Suzuki

Isosurfaces

Zsolt Szalavari

Halo code which was later turned into media

Scott Taylor

Leopard and onion textures

Gilles Tran

Scene files

John VanSickle

Cells pattern

Mark Wagner

Splines

Timothy Wegner

Fractal objects, PNG support

Drew Wells

POV-Ray 1.0 developer, POV-Ray 1.0 team coordinator

Daren Scot Wilson

Dispersion

Chris Young

Team leader 1992-1999, parser code, other contributions too numerous to list here