David is a professional graphics programmer working for a game development company in the UK. He holds a PhD in medical visualisation which he obtained while studying at City University in London, UK. Prior to this he studied at the University of Warwick where he completed his BSc in Computer Systems Engineering and his MSc in Computer Science. He has eight years experience in C++ and 3D graphics, and is also experienced in numerous other languages and technologies.

David founded the Thermite 3D Engine and is currently the lead programmer. He has been fascinated with voxel technology since he discovered it while studying for his PhD. In September 2005 he started writing a general purpose volume visualization application but after a year decided to focus on the game-specific elements. He refactored the interesting code into the PolyVox library, combined it with the Ogre graphics engine, and in December 2006 the first demo of Thermite was released. He has continued to work on it ever since.

For private communication you can email him at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , but for general questions about the engine please use the forums instead.

Matt Williams

Matt is currently studying for his PhD in particle physics at the University of Warwick in collaboration with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and CERN.

Matt has a keen interest in open source technologies and processes and has contributed to a number of  other projects over the years, most notably KDE. His technological interests range from GUI programming to build systems to high performance computing.

Matt maintains Thermite's build system and Linux version.

For contact details and more information visit Matt's website.