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Hi, my name is Chris Horvath, and I am one of the original founders of Tweak Films, which became Tweak Software, which created RV, and which was eventually purchased by Autodesk.

This repository contains some code that is mostly unmodified from the original Twk libraries, which were written by Jim Hourihan, Mike Root, and me from the years 2001-2004. As an example, base/TwkMath/Vec3.h is virtually unchanged from 2001, as are many parts of TwkMath, TwkUtil, TwkImage. There are dozens of talented artists and engineers who contributed to this codebase over the years, as part of Tweak or Autodesk. On one hand, I'm proud to see this work find its way into an ASWF proposal. On the other hand, it is plainly heartbreaking that none of the names of the many artists and programmers who made up Tweak over its years are attributed, and that Tweak is not attributed at all, except in copyright banners.

I don't in any way dispute the ownership of this code, it belongs to Autodesk as a result of their purchase of Tweak Software. I also don't claim authorship of RV, which was crafted into a product after my time at Tweak. However, please add the names of the many contributors to the Tweak codebase to the "Contributors.md" file, and some mention of the history of the code and product.