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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: Shacra, Evasion and Asclepios but the project also benefited from the help of the CIMIT Sim Group, ETH Zurich and CSIRO.

Latest Release
December 13 2011
SOFA version 1.0 RC1 released.

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SOFA 1.0 RC1 released!.
December 13 2011
Release
SOFA version 1.0 Release Candidate 1 released.
July 13 2011
Available Positions
Recruitment is now open. We have offers for a research engineer at INRIA Lille, and a junior engineer at INRIA Grenoble.
Click on links to get further information (in french).
January 31 2011
SOFA 2010 Retrospective
The SOFA team wishes you a happy new year 2011 !
Despite the lack of recent releases, SOFA is not dead, see here to learn all that happened in 2010.
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.
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