Inspiration - nodebench/Exporter GitHub Wiki

Chriss Kulla the original developer of sunflow. The whole development story can be read from here . images/chriss_kulla.jpg The current status of the project is unknown, but the last announcement on the sunflow page was made 7 years back. I was delighted to see, that the source code was moved to github two years back, I thought something was going on under the hood. Who knows!. Although he left the development in half way, He is now one of the lead developer of open shading language at spi. He is also behind the improvements in Arnold renderer as mentioned in this article

Ton roosnandal , Campbell, Brecht and the whole blender development team. Doug Hammond and luxblend team for the wonderful extensions framework. Mitsuba team for providing such a nice exporter which can be taken as a reference point for developing exporter script for blender. The original 2.4x sunflow exporter developers Robert Lindsay , Eugene Reilly and 2.53 exporter developer Silvio Falcinelli. The whole blender user community, The open source community.

You can contact many of them here at irc chat @ freenode channel #blendercoders