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[AGG] R.I.P. Maxim Shemanarev
Wojciech Mamrak
11 years ago
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Hello all,

I have been informed by an anonymous user of Russian Software
Developer Network forum (thank you mate, whoever you are) that Maxim
Shemanarev, author of AGG library, has died on 26th of November 2013.
See below links for more information.
I thought it would be good to honor the memory of Maxim in some way,
e.g. on agg's sourceforge website. Also, it would be a shame if his
website disappeared, we owe him that, but I am not sure whether we can
do anything more than a copy of it.


Requiescat in pace, Maxim!

russian:
http://rsdn.ru/forum/life/5377743.flat

english:
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=ru&to=en&a=http://rsdn.ru/forum/life/5377743.flat
Jim Barry
11 years ago
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Hi Wojciech,

Thank you for letting us know the sad news. I will certainly be raising a
glass in memory of Maxim this evening.

I will see about putting something on the sourceforge site. If anyone has
suggestions for wording then please let me know.

Fortunately, antigrain.com is already archived at the Wayback Machine (
http://web.archive.org/web/*/antigrain.com) so at least we will still have
that.

Regards
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Pete Bannister
11 years ago
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Sad news. He has made a very valuable contribution to the world.
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Marlon Mircevski
11 years ago
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...Maxim!

This man, one in a million, changed my life.
Thank you Maxim, rest in peace.
Nick Prudent (Valerian)
11 years ago
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This is awful news. What happened?

All my condolences to his family. Hard to believe one man did all this work. He will be missed.
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Nick
www.lessonator.com (http://www.lessonator.com)
Post by Marlon Mircevski
...Maxim!
This man, one in a million, changed my life.
Thank you Maxim, rest in peace.
Shriramana Sharma
11 years ago
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Post by Marlon Mircevski
This man, one in a million, changed my life.
Thank you Maxim, rest in peace.
Oh! I'm shocked to hear this. Is the news mentioned anywhere else
online or did you personally know him to hear of it?

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Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்�
Lorne Laliberte
11 years ago
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That really is sad news. AGG is a marvel, I learned so much from his code,
what a great gift he gave us all.

I built the graphics engine for Scrapbook MAX! 2.0 based upon AGG, and the
performance never ceased to amaze me.

My deepest condolences for his family. I hope they know how much his work
was appreciated by all of us.

Lorne Laliberte
Indigo Rose Software / Andromo.com
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Nicolas Rougier
11 years ago
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Very sad news. I’ve discover Maxim through his wonderful agg library some years ago and I’ve been
really amazed at this time by his work. In fact, I’m still amazed. The care he took on every
details to achieve flawless rendering. Agg was also the very first C++ library (among the many
ones out there) that was cleanly written with strong design principles. I still use it as a
reference in my teaching.

Rest in peace Maxim, you’ll be missed.

Nicolas Rougier
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Matteo Muratori
11 years ago
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Goodbye Maxim, your work has always been an incentive to do our best.

Matteo Muratori - AmanithVG team.
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Milan Marusinec
11 years ago
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I'm shocked by this news. They say on the russian page, it was an
epileptic attack.

Dear Maxim, if you hear this in heaven, rest in peace and let your soul
live forever.

I ported whole AGG from C++ to Object Pascal (aggpas.org), so I know
really very greatly how wonderfull his work is.

Milan
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Jim Crafton
11 years ago
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Yeah, I'm pretty surprised too, I met him 6-7 years ago when he was in NYC.
This sucks big time, I hope his family is OK. RIP Maxim.
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Tonko Juricic
11 years ago
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One of the smartest and nicest guy I met virtually.  Max, thank you and may your spirit live forever.

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Francesco
11 years ago
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I was always hoping that one day Maxim will come back to reply to one of
our emails or may be to write another article but now we all know that
he rest in peace far from our little occupations.

His work on the AGG library was exceptional in many respects. Many of us
didn't know him personally but in some way we came to know him a little
bit through his work that he chose to share with the community.

Goodbye Maxim
Stefano Zaglio
11 years ago
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I join in the displeasure at the loss of a talent that I would call
artistic.
He leaves a great contribution to the development.

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