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Meeting at INRIA Rhône-Alpes Grenoble
June 25-27, 2008
The meeting will take place at INRIA Rhône-Alpes in Grenoble. See the webpage for information how to get there. The first day of the meeting is open to anybody who is interested in learning more about SOFA . No registration is required. The second and third days are reserved for technical discussion of the SOFA development team.
Wednesday, June 25
9:00 - 11:00
F107 Sofa presentations
What is SOFA? (Stephane Cotin)
Data Structures in SOFA (Francois Faure)
Software Design (Jeremie Allard)
Geometry and Topology (Herve Delingette)
11:00 - 12:00
F107 Overview of Features
Quick presentations of various SOFA features, e.g., collision detection, forces, ODE solvers, mappings, hard constraints, GUI, integration with Maya, Blender or OGRE, articulated bodies, kinematics, dynamics, fluids, topological changes, parallelization, CUDA ...
12:00 - 14:00
A104 Lunch and Live Demos
Demos will take place in the room A104
14:00 - 16:00
F107 Applications and miscellaneous Issues
Current research topics, e.g., parallelization, collision detection on GPU, Contact model for haptic medical simulations
Extending SOFA
16:00 - 17:00
F107 Discussion
Thursday, June 26
9:00 - 12:00
A104 Next release (July 2008)
Documentation
New functionalities
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 17:00
A104 Next features
Multithreading
User interaction
Topological changes
Physical states
Friday, June 27
9:00 - 12:00
A104 Next features (cont.)
Hard constraints processing
Efficient linear algebra
Building large matrices
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 17:00
A104 Towards Sofa 2.0
What to add, what to change
Cleaning
Who does what
Conclusion