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<span id="id1"></span><h1>Credits<a class="headerlink" href="#credits" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>

<p>matplotlib was written by John Hunter and is now developed and

maintained by a number of <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ohloh.net/projects/matplotlib/contributors">active</a> developers.

The current co-lead developers of matplotlib are Michael Droettboom

and Thomas A. Caswell.</p>

<p>Special thanks to those who have made valuable contributions (roughly

in order of first contribution by date). Any list like this is bound

to be incomplete and can&#8217;t capture the thousands and thousands of

contributions over the years from these and others:</p>

<dl class="docutils">

<dt>Jeremy O&#8217;Donoghue</dt>

<dd>wrote the wx backend</dd>

<dt>Andrew Straw</dt>

<dd>Provided much of the log scaling architecture, the fill command, PIL

support for imshow, and provided many examples. He also wrote the

support for dropped axis spines and the <a class="reference external" href="http://mpl-buildbot.code.astraw.com/">buildbot</a> unit testing infrastructure

which triggers the JPL/James Evans platform specific builds and

regression test image comparisons from svn matplotlib across

platforms on svn commits.</dd>

<dt>Charles Twardy</dt>

<dd>provided the impetus code for the legend class and has made

countless bug reports and suggestions for improvement.</dd>

<dt>Gary Ruben</dt>

<dd>made many enhancements to errorbar to support x and y

errorbar plots, and added a number of new marker types to plot.</dd>

<dt>John Gill</dt>

<dd>wrote the table class and examples, helped with support for

auto-legend placement, and added support for legending scatter

plots.</dd>

<dt>David Moore</dt>

<dd>wrote the paint backend (no longer used)</dd>

<dt>Todd Miller</dt>

<dd>supported by <a class="reference external" 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.</dd>

<dt>Paul Barrett</dt>

<dd>supported by <a class="reference external" 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.</dd>

<dt>Perry Greenfield</dt>

<dd>supported by <a class="reference external" 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.</dd>

<dt>Jared Wahlstrand</dt>

<dd>wrote the initial SVG backend.</dd>

<dt>Steve Chaplin</dt>

<dd>served as the GTK maintainer and wrote the Cairo and

GTKCairo backends.</dd>

<dt>Jim Benson</dt>

<dd>provided the patch to handle vertical mathttext.</dd>

<dt>Gregory Lielens</dt>

<dd>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.</dd>

<p>Darren Dale</p>

<div>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 class="reference external" 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. He setup the infrastructure for the sphinx documentation

that powers the mpl docs.</div></blockquote>

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<dt>Paul Mcguire</dt>

<dd>provided the pyparsing module on which mathtext relies, and made a

number of optimizations to the matplotlib mathtext grammar.</dd>

<dt>Fernando Perez</dt>

<dd>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 class="reference external" href="http://ipython.org">ipython</a>. He also provided the

<a class="reference internal" href="../api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.matshow" title="matplotlib.pyplot.matshow"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">matshow()</span></tt></a> command, and wrote TConfig, which

is the basis for the experimental traited mpl configuration.</dd>

<dt>Andrew Dalke</dt>

<dd>of <a class="reference external" href="http://www.dalkescientific.com/">Dalke Scientific Software</a> contributed the

strftime formatting code to handle years earlier than 1900.</dd>

<dt>Jochen Voss</dt>

<dd>served as PS backend maintainer and has contributed several

bugfixes.</dd>

<p>Nadia Dencheva</p>

<div>supported by <a class="reference external" href="http://www.stsci.edu">STSCI</a> provided the contouring and

contour labeling code.</div></blockquote>

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<dt>Baptiste Carvello</dt>

<dd>provided the key ideas in a patch for proper

shared axes support that underlies ganged plots and multiscale

plots.</dd>

<dt>Jeffrey Whitaker</dt>

<dd>at <a class="reference external" href="http://www.boulder.noaa.gov">NOAA</a> wrote the

<a class="reference internal" href="../mpl_toolkits/index.html#toolkit-basemap"><em>Basemap</em></a> toolkit</dd>

<dt>Sigve Tjoraand, Ted Drain, James Evans</dt>

<dd>and colleagues at the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov">JPL</a> collaborated

on the QtAgg backend and sponsored development of a number of

features including custom unit types, datetime support, scale free

ellipses, broken bar plots and more. The JPL team wrote the unit

testing image comparison <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/tree/master/test">infrastructure</a>

for regression test image comparisons.</dd>

<dt>James Amundson</dt>

<dd>did the initial work porting the qt backend to qt4</dd>

<dt>Eric Firing</dt>

<dd>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.</dd>

<dt>Daishi Harada</dt>

<dd>added support for &#8220;Dashed Text&#8221;. See <a class="reference external" href="../examples/pylab_examples/dashpointlabel.html">dashpointlabel.py</a> and

<a class="reference internal" href="../api/text_api.html#matplotlib.text.TextWithDash" title="matplotlib.text.TextWithDash"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">TextWithDash</span></tt></a>.</dd>

<dt>Nicolas Young</dt>

<dd>added support for byte images to imshow, which are

more efficient in CPU and memory, and added support for irregularly

sampled images.</dd>

<dt>The <a class="reference external" href="http://brainvisa.info">brainvisa</a> Orsay team and Fernando Perez</dt>

<dd>added Qt support to <a class="reference external" href="http://ipython.org">ipython</a> in pylab mode.</dd>

<dt>Charlie Moad</dt>

<dd>contributed work to matplotlib&#8217;s Cocoa support and has done a lot of work on the OSX and win32 binary releases.</dd>

<dt>Jouni K. Seppänen</dt>

<dd>wrote the PDF backend and contributed numerous

fixes to the code, to tex support and to the get_sample_data handler</dd>

<dt>Paul Kienzle</dt>

<dd>improved the picking infrastructure for interactive plots, and with

Alex Mont contributed fast rendering code for quadrilateral meshes.</dd>

<dt>Michael Droettboom</dt>

<dd>supported by <a class="reference external" href="http://www.stsci.edu">STSCI</a> wrote the enhanced

mathtext support, implementing Knuth&#8217;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.</dd>

<dt>John Porter, Jonathon Taylor and Reinier Heeres</dt>

<dd>John Porter wrote the mplot3d module for basic 3D plotting in

matplotlib, and Jonathon Taylor and Reinier Heeres ported it to the

refactored transform trunk.</dd>

<dt>Jae-Joon Lee</dt>

<dd>Implemented fancy arrows and boxes, rewrote the legend

support to handle multiple columns and fancy text boxes, wrote the

axes grid toolkit, and has made numerous contributions to the code

and documentation</dd>

<dt>Paul Ivanov</dt>

<dd>Has worked on getting matplotlib integrated better with other tools,

such as Sage and IPython, and getting the test infrastructure

faster, lighter and meaner. Listen to his podcast.</dd>

<dt>Tony Yu</dt>

<dd>Has been involved in matplotlib since the early days, and recently

has contributed stream plotting among many other improvements. He

is the author of mpltools.</dd>

<dt>Michiel de Hoon</dt>

<dd>Wrote and maintains the macosx backend.</dd>

<dt>Ian Thomas</dt>

<dd>Contributed, among other things, the triangulation (tricolor and

tripcontour) methods.</dd>

<dt>Benjamin Root</dt>

<dd>Has significantly improved the capabilities of the 3D plotting. He

has improved matplotlib&#8217;s documentation and code quality throughout,

and does invaluable triaging of pull requests and bugs.</dd>

<dt>Phil Elson</dt>

<dd>Fixed some deep-seated bugs in the transforms framework, and has

been laser-focused on improving polish throughout matplotlib,

tackling things that have been considered to large and daunting for

a long time.</dd>

<dt>Damon McDougall</dt>

<dd>Added triangulated 3D surfaces and stack plots to matplotlib.</dd>

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