VI
Acknowledgments
I am
pleased
to
acknowledge
the
many companies
and
universities around
the
world
that
have supported
and
actively participated
in the
gOcad project. GOcad was,
and
still
is, a
tremendous
adventure,
not
only
for me, but
also
for all the
brave
"gocadians"
who
have agreed
to
accompany
me in
this exciting research.
There
is
no
doubt
that
gOcad would never have become
so
popular
if it
were
not for the
enthusiastic
and
outstanding contribution
of the
students
and
senior researchers
around
the
world
who
decided
to
participate
in
this
adventure; without further ado,
I
want
to
thank them collectively
for the
great work they have done.
My
particular thanks
go to all
those
who
generously helped
me in the
prepa-
ration
and
reviewing
of
this book, including Yves Bertrand,
Amy
Cheng, Richard
Cognot, Joel Conraud,
Stephane
Conreaux, Jean-Claude
Dulac,
Pierre Goovaerts,
Andre
Haas, Andre Journel, Bruno
Levy,
Pascal
Lienhardt,
Heather Ludden, John
Ludden,
Olivier Mariez, Isabelle Moretti, Jarek Rossignac, Jean-Jacques Royer,
Arben Shtuka, Chuck Sword.
I am
also
grateful
to all the
many
friends
around
the
world
who
provided
useful
critiques
in the
preparation
of
this manuscript. Thanks also
go to the
companies
Chevron,
Elf, T-Surf
and
Unocal
who
provided
data
used
for
building some models
of
the
subsurface
that
illustrate this book. Finally,
I
must acknowledge
the
ASGA
organization
who
agreed
to
manage
the day to day
administration
of the
gOcad
project
from
the
very beginning
to the
present.
I
would like also
to
thank
the
Kluwer
Publishing Company
for the
written permission
to use and
reproduce
in
this book
some
of my
text
and figures
previously published
in the
Journal
of
Mathematical
Geology
(articles [150]
and
[151]).
Finally,
I
express
my
deepest thanks
to
Oxford
University
Press which
has
agreed
to
publish this book.
These
acknowledgments would
be
incomplete
without mentioning
the
essential
role
played
by my
wife,
Danielle.
For the
last
thirty years,
her
agreement
to
accept
total
responsibility
for the
smooth running
of the
family
has
freed
me to
devote
myself
one-hundred percent
to my
research. Without her, neither gOcad
nor
this
book would ever have been possible.
Jean-Laurent Mallet
Jean-Laurent.Mallet@ensg.inpl-nancy.fr
Institut National Polytechnique
de
Lorraine
Ecole
Nationale
Superieure
de
Geologie/CRPG/Loria
Nancy,
July
2001