Useful Assistants Easter Egg

Special thanks to our beta testers, especially the following testers for their help and valuable feedback:

• Dik Baskerville (Kinesis-Eidolon)
• Mark Christiansen
• Dan Ebberts
• Stu Maschwitz and the gang at The Orphanage
• Trish Meyer
• Richard Patterson
• Michael Schneider
• Kenneth Woodruff

Thanks to Bruce Bullis for his assistance.

Thanks to all our customers and the After Effects community members that have requested assistants.

The Python wrapper for the Ming library is included in the scripts utilities folder of the Useful Assistants package. The Ming library is covered under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LPGL), and the library source code is available at http://ming.sourceforge.net/.

The Python Imaging Library (PIL) is

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The particle system in Useful Assistants is based on the Particle System API (http://www.cs.unc.edu/~davemc/Particle/) by David K. McAllister, used with permission.

Useful Assistants includes components from the Python Software Foundation.