asymptote: Credits

 
 15 Acknowledgments
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 Financial support for the development of 'Asymptote' was generously
 provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of
 Canada, the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences, and the
 University of Alberta Faculty of Science.
 
    We also would like to acknowledge the previous work of John D. Hobby,
 author of the program 'MetaPost' that inspired the development of
 'Asymptote', and Donald E. Knuth, author of TeX and 'MetaFont' (on which
 'MetaPost' is based).
 
    The authors of 'Asymptote' are Andy Hammerlindl, John Bowman, and Tom
 Prince.  Sean Healy designed the 'Asymptote' logo.  Other contributors
 include Orest Shardt, Jesse Frohlich, Michail Vidiassov, Charles Staats,
 Philippe Ivaldi, Olivier Guibe', Radoslav Marinov, Jeff Samuelson, Chris
 Savage, Jacques Pienaar, Mark Henning, Steve Melenchuk, Martin Wiebusch,
 and Stefan Knorr.