Section: New Software and Platforms

SOFA

Simulation Open Framework Architecture

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 new algorithms, but can also be used as an efficient 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 the 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.

Sofa is extensively used by Anatoscope, who add proprietary plugins and helps maintaining the public plugins.

• Participants: François Faure, Armelle Bauer, Matthieu Nesme, Romain Testylier.

• Contact: François Faure

• URL: http://www.sofa-framework.org