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Perk is a multi-paradigm low level language, designed to be used in the development of the MellOS operating system. By carefully selecting features from popular modern languages, it strikes a balance between ease of use with high level abstractions and low friction with bare metal programming. Perk is designed to be fully C-compatible, making it possible to use pre-existing C libraries and tools seamlessly.
To quote my friend and co-creator of the language, Mellotron (aka Lorenzo Pace): “Currently [Perk is] in a bit of an embryonic state, but we're working on it at a frantic, almost unhealthy pace.”
In parallel, we are developing a game in Perk, using SDL bindings, to showcase and benchmark the language.

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MellOS is a community-based open source operating system. Started a few years ago by my friend Mellotron (aka Lorenzo Pace), the project is slowly but steadily growing to include more and more features.
I started contributing to the project in 2024, and I have been working on it ever since. I have worked on implementing the graphics subsystem and making the kernel more stable, and am now working on Perk, a new low-level programming language that will be the backbone of the future development of MellOS.

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As part of the “3D Geometric Modeling and Processing” course at the University of Pisa, I developed a plugin for MeshLab, a popular open source mesh manipulation program. The aim of the plugin was to provide a remeshing algorithm that would be several times faster than the existing one. To this aim, I used the open source library OpenVDB.
This involved providing bindings for the library, first by developing a compatibilityhero layer for VCGlib, the open source library used by MeshLab and developed by the Visual Computing Lab (VCG in short) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR). Then, I developed the plugin itself, to include the new functionality in MeshLab.

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A simulation of a population of Uta Stansburiana lizards, developed as part of the “Computational Models for Complex Systems” course at the University of Pisa, together with a coursemate. Despite the strict time constraints, we decided to develop the simulation in Godot, a popular open source game engine, both because we wanted the project to be more animated and fun, and because we wanted to take the opportunity to learn how to use the engine.

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As part of the “Computer Graphics” course at the University of Pisa, I developed a 3D rendering engine from scratch. Everything in the engine is done by hand — in TypeScript with WebGL — using what was learnt in the course (plus a few extras such as post processing effects, researched on my own). The engine supports basic 3D models, textures, lighting, shadows, and post processing effects. It also includes a test program that loads a simple scene with a controllable car, and allows the user to move the camera around, change some rendering parameters, inspect shadowmaps and apply post processing effects.
I planned to develop a custom shader builder that would let the user enable or disable several components to achieve different effects, but due to time constraints of the course, this was not possible.

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Baum was a (now defunct) social media platform where users could share their own Augmented Reality experiences. Users could create a 3D scene and post it, and their followers could bring it to reality in their own room thanks to our AR platform.
The name comes from writer L. Frank Baum, regarded by many as the first person to imagine augmented reality in his novel “The Master Key”.
The project was developed together with a team of other Apple Developer Academy students and was carried on after our graduation. However, it does not exist anymore, to this day.

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FAILURE is a program analyser that determines the (in)correctness of a program using Separation Sufficient Incorrectness Logic. The tool was developed as part of the “Laboratory for Innovative Software” course at the University of Pisa, in a group with other students of the Master's degree course, with feedback by the authors of the original paper.

ChuPikaPi is an esoteric programming language in which you speak with your Pikachu to train it to execute your program. The compiler was written in 2 days, and it started as a challenge to myself to see how fast I could write a compiler for a simple language. The language itself is Turing complete. The name of the language is a play on C++, sometimes rendered as Cpp, and Pikachu, the famous Pokémon.