This page last updated: Apr 25, 2006

It's not just because we're crazy.  There's a method to the madness.  The rhizopod format is actually an implementation of a "CAD Directory Database", which grew out of discussions and the ideas of several people.  Bruno Postle's concept "An Open File Format for Computer Aided Design" was developed independently from Massimiliano Mirra's implementation for xSpace, and we happened to run into each other on a mailing list not long after I had started cooking-up an idea for turning CAD and engineering applications into an operating-system/ client-application model.

Since this project started, others appear to have had similar ideas in different realms, such as subversion's FSFS database format (editor: insert more examples here.)

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