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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

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SOFA team at INRIA Grenoble.
September 20-24 2010
Public Presentation
SOFA will be represented at MICCAI 2010.
July 25-29 2010
Public Presentation
SOFA will be represented at SIGGRAPH 2010.
Further information are available here.
July 1-2 2010
Public Presentation
SOFA will be represented at the second Eurographics Workshop of VCBM.
Cardiac electrophysiology simulation using SOFA wins the best paper price of the Workshop. Video here.
April 23-24 2010
Public Presentation
Demo stand of haptic cardiac simulation using SOFA during Health-e-Child conference. Further information are available here.
Video of the demo is available here.
March 29-31 2010
Developer Meeting
7th SOFA meeting at INRIA Rhone-Alpes. Detailed program here.
October 21-23 2009
Developer Meeting
6th SOFA meeting at INRIA Sophia Antipolis. Detailed program here.
July 2009
Available Positions (Closed: positions filled)
Recruitment is now open. We have offers for a junior engineer and a senior engineer at INRIA Lille, and a junior engineer at INRIA Grenoble.
Click on links to get further information (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.
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.
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