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'''Romulus''' is [[boundary representation]] (b-rep) [[solid modeling]] software, released first in 1978 by Ian Braid, Charles Lang, Alan Grayer, and the [[Shape Data]] team in [[Cambridge, England]].<ref name="Bézier Award 2008">{{cite web|title=Ian Braid, Alan Grayer and Charles Lang, the 2008 Pierre Bézier Award Recipients|url=http://solidmodeling.org/bezier-award/i-braid-a-grayer-and-c-lang/|website=Sold Modeling Association|access-date=2 April 2016}}</ref> It was the first commercial [[Geometric modeling kernel|solid modeling kernel]] designed for straightforward integration into [[computer-aided design]] (CAD) software. Romulus incorporated the CAM-I AIS<ref>{{cite book
|last1=Rogers |first1=David
|last2=Earnshaw |first2=Rae
|date=2001-10-31
|title=Computer Graphics Techniques:Theory and Practice
|publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]]
|isbn=0-387-97237-4
|page=399}}</ref> (Computer Aided Manufacturers International's [[Application Interface Specification]]) and was the only solid modeler (other than its successors [[Parasolid]] and [[ACIS]]) ever to offer a third-party standard application programming interface ([[API]]) to facilitate high-level integration into a host CAD software program. Romulus was quickly licensed by [[Siemens]], [[Hewlett-Packard]] (HP), and several other CAD software vendors.

== See also ==
*[[Comparison of computer-aided design software]]
*[[Shape Data]]

== References ==
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[[Category:3D graphics software]]

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