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Springs World 3D - Home Page
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Description
My name is Marcello Falco, I was born in 1968 in Italy and I'm a Math and Physics teacher in the Italian High-School. I'm the Author of the applet 'Springs World 3D' and I'm also the Administrator of this web site. You can contact me in the site forum or filling this module.
The 'Springs World 3D' project has a story that begins in summer 2001. At that time I discovered sodaplay and I started to enjoy in playing with it. I was very busy with my PhD at the university and, moreover, I would have started my present job of teacher within few months. For this reason my first encounter with sodaplay was very short: just the time to make few models during the (many) breaks at the university (I had always ready in my computer a window with a Fortran program in case of an unexpected visit of my tutors :P).
In summer 2002 for the first time I had a lot of free time. I remembered of that fun applet and I began to play again with sodaplay. I had a kind of irresistible attraction to sodaplay: it was one of the smartest things I had ever seen in Internet. In that period I also began do ask myself if I were been able to reproduce that work with a program of mine. For this reason I did some virtual experiment of physics with that applet. In the same period it is also started my friendship with Jeffrey Barker: together with him I wrote a didactical paper about 'the physics behin the sodaconstructor'. That paper was ready in winter 2002 and it can be considered as the first step toward 'Springs World 3D'.
