C.1 Acknowledgements

TOPCAT was initially (2003-2005) developed under the UK Starlink project (1980-2005, R.I.P.). From July 2005 until June 2006, it is supported by a grant from the UK's Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. Its author will be funded from July 2006 until (at least) June 2007 by the European VOTech project within the UK's AstroGrid, and it is expected that support and development of the software will continue over that time.

Inspiration for many of TOPCAT's features has been taken from the following pre-existing tools:

Apart from the excellent Java 2 Standard Edition itself, the following external libraries provide important parts of TOPCAT's functionality:

The following users, testers and programmers have supplied useful comments (apologies for any missed out):