Section: New Software and Platforms

SOFA

Keywords: Simulation of the Human Body - Physical Simulation - Health - Biomechanics - GPU - Computer-Assisted Surgery

Functional Description:

SOFA (Simulation Open Framework Architecture) 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 new algorithms, but it can also be used as a prototyping tool. Based on an advanced software architecture, it allows the creation of complex and evolving simulations by combining new algorithms with algorithms already included in SOFA, the modification of most parameters of a simulation (deformable behavior, surface representation, solver, constraints, collision algorithm, etc.) by simply editing an XML file, the building of complex models from simpler ones using a scene-graph description, the efficient simulation of the dynamics of interacting objects using abstract equation solvers, the reuse and easy comparison of a variety of available methods.

It is developed mainly by the Inria team projects Shacra, Evasion and Asclepios and it is available under the LGPL licence.

• Participants: Chloé Audigier, Sophie Giffard-Roisin, Roch-Philippe Molléro and Hervé Delingette

• Contact: Hervé Delingette

• URL: http://www.sofa-framework.org