Thank you Maxim - PaintLab/PixelFarm GitHub Wiki
To Maxim Šemanarev
from http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=ru&to=en&a=http://rsdn.ru/forum/life/5377743.flat
Maxim aka Šemanarev McSeem2, 1966-2013
From: Andy77 Ниоткуда Date: 28.11.13 21:57 Score: 131 (60) +24
In Tuesday 26 November, at his home in Maryland at the age of 47 years died, Maxim Šemanarev, better known by the pseudonym McSeem2 RSDN.
Maxim was one of the brightest and most talented engineers I have ever been fortunate enough to work together. He purchased a "widely known in narrow circles" through the development of a lightweight, cross-platform computer graphics library nizkourovenoj http://antigrain.com/, which is widely used in a variety of industries, from pharmaceutical and gaming to automotive. Despite the fact that he left the company where we worked together for more than five years ago, his contribution so far feels every day — a system in which he participated, help thousands of scientists discover new medicines. He combined in himself the rare skill set — in addition to buying an algorithmic thinking, he possessed a sophisticated taste in design, did not recognize the trade-offs and fully attributed to what he was doing. We all borrowed something from him.
He was my personal friend. He perfectly turned out salting fish, and during his stay in Pennsylvania we often met at his home.
He was an avid skier. When he was just starting to ride, he joined Monday with completely broken face — no, it was not the result of a brawl in a bar, he just decided to learn to ride a mount, designated two black diamonds. Many times we celebrated new year in the mountains a great noisy company. One day, returning from the mountains and once on black ice on the turn, we flew off the road and turned over, the car was on its side and could not decide where to fall is fortunate that right behind us rode good Samaritans in a Jeep with a rope. At other times, 31 December our car rammed into the side door of the deer, decided to run across the street at just this moment. In the mirror I could see how the deer rose from the feet and shook his head, looking quizzically at the empty road before him.
He wrote the code very rapidly with two fingers, rhythmically rocking in a Chair and headphones came Ramstein.
He was very freedom-loving, independent and extraordinary man. I will miss him.
Rest in peace, Max.
from http://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/news/2013/11/26/MaximShemanarev.html
Maxim Shemanarev 1966-2013
Nov 26, 2013 • Nicolas P. Rougier scientific visualization
Maxim Alekseevich Shemanarev, author of the antigrain geometry library has passed away on November 26th, 2013. >I did not know him personally, but I’ve been really amazed by his work on the antigrain geometry library. I’ve >never seen such a well programmed C++ library and the output quality of the generated graphics has never been >outdone (and I know what I’m talking about).
some excerp on Agg, see https://github.com/PaintLab/PixelFarm/issues/15