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- Art of Illusion v2.4
-
- Copyright 1999-2006 by Peter Eastman
-
- 1. Introduction
-
- Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D graphics studio. It combines
- modelling, texturing, animation, and rendering in one application, with
- advanced features which compare favorably to those found in many commercial
- programs.
-
- Art of Illusion is written entirely in Java. It should (in theory) work
- under any Java Virtual Machine (JVM) which is compatible with Sun's Java
- Development Kit (JDK) 1.4 or later. Instructions on how to run the
- program under various operating systems, as well as the complete source
- code, can be found at:
-
- http://www.artofillusion.org
-
- 2. License
-
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
- Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
- any later version.
-
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
- or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
- for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59
- Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. It can also be
- found on the Internet at http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
-
- 3. Acknowledgements
-
- The following other people have made significant contributions to this
- project:
-
- Rasmus Anthin: Swedish translations
- Michael Butscher: BMP export, various user interface improvements and
- other features
- Carmen DiMichele: most of the toolbar icons
- Francois Guillet: Script and Plugin Manager, French translations, a
- variety of plugins
- Duncan Hawes: the boolean modelling tutorial
- Norbert Krieg: POV-Ray export
- David Kuegler: German translations
- Julian MacDonald: User Manual, several tutorials, beta testing
- Ken McNeill: saving animations in Quicktime format
- Tanaka Masahiko: Japanese translations
- Rick van der Meiden: the Array tool, the Hourglass tutorial
- Julio Sangrador Paton: Spanish translations, running the website
- Alberto Porru: Italian translations (tutorials)
- Jan Rouvillain: Danish translations
- Paolo Scarpa: Italian translations (text in the application)
- Marcos Sobrinho: Portuguese translations
- Nik Trevallyn-Jones: Help plugin, Script and Plugin Manager
- David Turner: the Expression, Lighter, and Darker modules in the procedure
- editor
- Martin Winkelbauer: German translations
- David Eastman: lots of advice, helpful suggestions, and no small amount
- of blatant harrassment :)
- Catharine Eastman: testing, being patient with me when I program for
- hours on end, and a whole lot of other things!
-
- 4. Other Licenses
-
- Art of Illusion uses James R. Weeks' JPEG encoding classes for saving images
- to JPEG files. The following copyright notice, distribution terms, and
- disclaimer apply only to these classes. All other portions of the program
- are covered by the license terms given above.
-
- The JpegEncoder and its associated classes are Copyright (c) 1998, James
- R. Weeks and BioElectroMech. This software is based in part on the work
- of the Independent JPEG Group.
-
- Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
- modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
- met:
-
- 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
- this list of conditions, all files included with the source code, and the
- following disclaimer.
- 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
- notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
- documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-
- THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY
- EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
- WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
- DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
- DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
- (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
- SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
- CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
- LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
- OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
- SUCH DAMAGE.
-
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