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<h2>Credits</h2>
matplotlib was written by John Hunter and is now developed and
maintained by a number of
<a href=http://www.ohloh.net/projects/531/analyses/latest/contributors>active
developers</a><p>
<h4>Special thanks to those who have made valuable contributions
(roughly in order of first contribution by date)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Jeremy O'Donoghue wrote the wx backend</li>
<li>Andrew Straw provided much of the log scaling architecture, the
fill command, PIL support for imshow, and provided many
examples</li>
<li>Charles Twardy provided the impetus code for the legend class
and has made countless bug reports and suggestions for
improvement.</li>
<li>Gary Ruben made many enhancements to errorbar to support x and y
errorbar plots, and added a number of new marker types to plot.
</li>
<li>John Gill wrote the table class and examples, helped with
support for auto-legend placement, and added support for legending
scatter plots.</li>
<li>David Moore wrote the paint backend</li>
<li>Todd Miller aupported by <a
href=http://www.stsci.edu/>STScI</a> contributed the TkAgg backend and the numerix
module, which allows matplotlib to work with either numeric or
numarray. He also ported image support to the postscript backend,
with much pain and suffering.</li>
<li>Paul Barrett supported by <a
href=http://www.stsci.edu/>STScI</a> overhauled font management to provide an improved,
free-standing, platform independent font manager with a WC3
compliant font finder and cache mechanism and ported truetype and
mathtext to PS</li>
<li>Perry Greenfield supported by
<a href=http://www.stsci.edu/>STScI</a> overhauled and modernized
the goals and priorities page, implemented an improved colormap
framework, and has provided many suggestions and a lot of insight to
the overall design and organization of matplotlib.</li>
<li>Jared Wahlstrand wrote the initial SVG backend</li>
<li>Steve Chaplin served as the GTK maintainer and wrote the Cairo and
GTKCairo backends</li>
<li>Jim Benson provided the patch to handle vertical mathttext</li>
<li>Gregory Lielens provided the FltkAgg backend and several patches
for the frontend, including contributions to toolbar2, and support
for log ticking with alternate bases and major and minor log
ticking</li>
<li>Darren Dale did the work to do mathtext exponential labeling for
log plots, added improved support for scalar formatting, and did the
lions share of the
<a href=http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/psfrag.html?action=/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/psfrag/>psfrag</a>
LaTeX support for postscript. He has made substantial contributions
to extending and maintaining the PS and Qt backends, and wrote the
site.cfg and matplotlib.conf build and runtime configuration
support</li>
<li>Paul Mcguire provided the pyparsing module on which mathtext
relies, and made a number of optimizations to the matplotlib
mathtext grammar.</i>
<li>Fernando Perez has provided numerous bug reports and patches for
cleaning up backend imports and expanding pylab functionality, and
provided matplotlib support in the pylab mode for
<a href=http://ipython.scipy.org>ipython</a>. He also provided
the <a href=matplotlib.pyplot.html#-matshow>matshow</a> command, and
wrote TConfig, which is the basis for the traited mpl
configuration. </li>
<li>Andrew Dalke of Dalke Scientific Software contributed the
strftime formatting code to handle years earlier than 1900</li>
<li>Jochen Voss served as PS backend maintainer and has contributed
several bugfixes.</li>
<li>Nadia Dencheva supported by <a
href=http://www.stsci.edu/>STScI</a> provided the contouring and
contour labeling code</li>
<li>Baptiste Carvello provided the key ideas in a patch for proper
shared axes support that underlies ganged plots and multiscale
plots</li>
<li>Jeffrey Whitaker at
<a href=http://www.boulder.noaa.gov/>NOAA</a> wrote
the <a href=toolkits.html>basemap</a> tookit</li>
<li>Sigve Tjoraand, Ted Drain and colleagues at the
<a href=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov>JPL</a> collaborated on the QtAgg
backend</li>
<li>James Amundson did the initial work porting the qt backend to qt4</li>
<li>Eric Firing has contributed significantly to contouring, masked
array, pcolor, image and quiver support, in addition to ongoing
support and enhancements in performance, design and code quality in
most aspects of matplotlib.</li>
<li>Daishi Harada added support for "Dashed Text". See <a
href=examples/pylab_examples/dashpointlabel.py>dashpointlabel.py</a> and <a
href=matplotlib.text.html#TextWithDash>TextWithDash</a></li>
<li>Nicolas Young added support for byte images to imshow, which are
more efficient in CPU and memory, and added support for irregularly
sampled images.</li>
<li>The <a href=http://brainvisa.info>brainvisa</a> Orsay team and
Fernando Perez added Qt support to <a
href=http://ipython.scipy.org>ipython</a>/pylab.</li>
<li>Charlie Moad contributed work to matplotlib's Cocoa support and
does the binary builds and releases</li>
<li>Jouni K. Seppaenen wrote the PDF backend</li>
<li> Paul Kienzle improved the picking infrastruture for interactive plots,
and with Alex Mont contributed fast rendering code for quadrilateral
meshes.</li>
<li>Michael Droettboom supported by
<a href=http://www.stsci.edu/>STScI</a> wrote the enhanced mathtext
support, implementing Knuth's box layout algorithms, saving to
file-like objects across backends, and is responsible for numerous
bug-fixes, much better font and unicode support, and feature and
performance enhancements across the matplotlib code base. He also rewrote the transformation infrastructure to support custom projections and scales</li>
</ul>
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