nGI would not have been possible if we would not have had the opportunity to build on numerous talented people’s work.

We are grateful to the work of these people and thank them for the effort they have put in their work. By building upon these people’s work, nGI is much more powerful than it would have been otherwise.

We have used tools, code and accumulated wisdom of other people, and in this section we want to acknowledge their work and thank them.

Boost

Boost (http://www.boost.org) is "one of the most highly regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the world." These are not our words, but those of Herb Sutter and Andrej Alexandrescu.

We have used lots of functionality from Boost, and by this the NGI source code is much cleaner, shorter and better as it could have been otherwise.

FreeImage

FreeImage (http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/) is the library we use to load and save images from and to various formats.

This software uses the FreeImage open source image library.

Cmake

CMake (http://www.cmake.org/) is a family of tools designed to build, test and package software.

We use CMake to build the NGI samples with different compilers and in different configurations. We also use CMake to compile and run tests.

Subversion

Subversion (http://subversion.apache.org/) is an open source version control system.

We use Subversion to manage the development of NGI. Subversion is a set of command line tools.

TortoiseSVN

TortoiseSVN (http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/) provides a user interface to Subversion.

It comes in the form of a Windows explorer extension and is much easier to use than the subversion command line.

Doxygen and Graphviz

Doxygen (http://www.doxygen.org) is a documentation system for C++ and other languages.

We use Doxygen to automatically build the NGI reference documentation from the NGI source files.

Graphviz (http://www.graphviz.org/) is a set of tools for graph visualization. It is optionally used by Doxygen to create inheritance and collaboration graphs.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/) is an invaluable resource of knowledge and we have often used it while creating NGI. We also took the freedom to augment our documentation with links to Wikipedia.

Mathworld

Mathworld (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/) is a piece of mathematical beauty, created by Eric Weisstein and supported by Wolfram. I have often scratched my head while trying to gain mathematical insight when finally Mathworld came to our rescue. Where applicable, we have put links to Mathworld from within the documentation.