Credits
Current developers
Authored the XGE (eXtreme Geometric Environment) the kernel is currently based upon, and the SVG, XML and FFI interfaces.
Authored the current Scheme-based interpreter and the VRML animation, and contributed to colors, textures, lights and cameras.
Authored the Xplode (Is a PLasm Open Development Environment) multi-platform editor and IDE
Project coordinator: provided development directions and the PLaSM libraries. On the way, he is using PLaSM for teaching and research.
Award
In July 2003 the project was awarded within the IBM Shared University Research (SUR) program, with an equipment donation of about US$ 230,000, for the assesment of a new Lab of "Intelligent Computational Design" and research on Knowledge-Based Design Language Supporting Massive Simulations.
Former developers
Provided dimension-independent regularized Boolean operations and an OpenInventor animation engine.
Developed multi-dimensional integration algorithms and implemented some libraries in the SimpleXn kernel.
Contributed to the seminal work about multidimensional modeling with simplicial complexes.
Contributed the design and the first implementation of the SimpleXn multi-dimensional modeler.
Contributed the extension with colors, textures, lights and cameras and the current VRML exporter.
Extended the SimpleXnmodeler with convex cells and implemented most fundamental operations.
Implemented the parametric mapping and the basic constructor of polyhedral complexes.
Contributed to the initial design of the language.
Authored the first PLaSM interpreter in Common Lisp and the design environment, as well as the first VRML and animation exporting.
Acknowledgements
The PLaSM project has been initially developed between 1991 and 1995 with grants by the Italian National Research Council, for a total amount of about US$ 370,000, in the framework of the Research Program on Building Technologies ("PF Edilizia").
In the last few years the language development was supported by a grant of US$ 190,000 from the SPIKE industrial consortium, within the SPI/9 National Research Program funded by MIUR, the Italian Agency for Research and University.