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The SOFA project		News
SOFA is an Open Source framework primarily targeted at real-time simulation, with an emphasis on medical simulation. It is mostly intended for the research community to help develop newer algorithms, but can also be used as an efficient prototyping tool. Based on an advanced software architecture, it allows to: create complex and evolving simulations by combining new algorithms with algorithms already included in SOFA modify most parameters of the simulation – deformable behavior, surface representation, solver, constraints, collision algorithm, etc. – by simply editing an XML file build complex models from simpler ones using a scene-graph description efficiently simulate the dynamics of interacting objects using abstract equation solvers reuse and easily compare a variety of available methods SOFA is currently developed by 3 INRIA teams: Alcove, Evasion and Asclepios but the project also benefited from the help of the CIMIT Sim Group, ETH Zurich and CSIRO. Latest Release March 20 2009 SOFA version 1.0 beta 4 released. Development version You can also request an access to the development version of SOFA. Contact us at: contact@sofa-framework.org Image of the month SOFA team at INRIA Lille		July 2009 Recruitment Recruitment is now open. We have offers for a junior engineer and a senior engineer at INRIA Lille. Click on links to get further informations (in french). March 20 2009 Release SOFA version 1.0 beta 4 released. March 14 2009 Public Presentation We are organizing a tutorial on Interactive Physics Simulation at IEEE VR 2009. Further information is available here. May - October 2009 Available Positions We are looking for several engineers to join the project. More details will be posted soon. December 8-12 2008 Developer Meeting SOFA meeting at INRIA Lille. Detailed program here. November 27 2008 Award Cardiac simulation using SOFA wins the first price with Health-e-child. Further information is available here. August 12 2008 Release SOFA version 1.0 beta 3 released. July 9 2008 Public Presentation SOFA workshop at Imperial College, London during ISBMS 2008. June 25-27 2008 Developer Meeting SOFA meeting at INRIA Rhone-Alpes. December 2007 Developer Meeting SOFA meeting at INRIA Lille. September 2007 Public Presentation Presentation of SOFA during Surgetica 2007. September 2007 Developer Meeting SOFA meeting at INRIA Sophia Antipolis. April 3 2007 Release SOFA version 1.0 beta 2 released. February 9 2007 Public Presentation Presentation of SOFA during MMVR 2007. February 9 2007 Release SOFA version 1.0 beta 1 released.

The SOFA project

News

SOFA is an Open Source framework primarily targeted at real-time simulation, with an emphasis on medical simulation. It is mostly intended for the research community to help develop newer algorithms, but can also be used as an efficient prototyping tool. Based on an advanced software architecture, it allows to:

create complex and evolving simulations by combining new algorithms with algorithms already included in SOFA
modify most parameters of the simulation – deformable behavior, surface representation, solver, constraints, collision algorithm, etc. – by simply editing an XML file
build complex models from simpler ones using a scene-graph description
efficiently simulate the dynamics of interacting objects using abstract equation solvers
reuse and easily compare a variety of available methods

SOFA is currently developed by 3 INRIA teams: Alcove, Evasion and Asclepios but the project also benefited from the help of the CIMIT Sim Group, ETH Zurich and CSIRO.

Latest Release

March 20 2009

SOFA version 1.0 beta 4 released.

Development version

You can also request an access to the development version of SOFA.
Contact us at: contact@sofa-framework.org

Image of the month

SOFA team at INRIA Lille

July 2009

Recruitment

Recruitment is now open. We have offers for a junior engineer and a senior engineer at INRIA Lille.
Click on links to get further informations (in french).