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.
Public releases...
- Coming in July: SOFA version 1.0
- March 2007: SOFA version 1.0 beta 2 released
- February 2007: SOFA version 1.0 beta 1 released
Development version...
- You can also request an access to the development version of SOFA.
Contact us at: contact@sofa-framework.org
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Talks...
- September 2007: presentation of SOFA during Surgetica 2007
- February 2007: presentation of SOFA during the MMVR 2007 conference
Meetings...
- July 9th 2008: SOFA workshop at Imperial College, London during the ISBMS symposium. Register here
- June 25-26-27 2008: SOFA meeting in Grenoble at INRIA Rhône-Alpes
- 25, 9h30-17h: General presentation of SOFA: architecture, features, ongoing work. Everybody is welcome
- 26-27: More specific discussions about the next release and the future of SOFA.
- More detailed program
- September 2007: SOFA meeting in Sophia Antipolis at INRIA
Screenshot of the month
Simulation of cataract surgery (phacoemulsification phase)
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