Art of Illusion v2.8.1

Copyright 1999-2010 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:

Jussi Aalto: Finnish translations
Rasmus Anthin: Swedish translations
Michael Butscher: BMP export, various user interface improvements and
other features
Xu Chen: Chinese translations
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
Tuomas Jaakola: Finnish translations
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
Duc Nguyen Thi Minh: Vietnamese translations
Samuel Murray: Afrikaans translations
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
Jamin Teo: Chinese translations
Nik Trevallyn-Jones: Script and Plugin Manager, Theme management, too many
plugins to count
Nguyen Dinh Trung: Vietnamese translations
David Turner: the Expression, Lighter, and Darker modules in the procedure
editor
Harri Vahatalo: Finnish translations
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!
