DESCRIPTION¶
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 one 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
OPTIONS¶
- -h --help
- this help
- -s --start
- start the animation loop (default: 0 )
- -p --factory
- In addition to the baz segments, also parse the blurfl headers.
- -g --gui
- choose the UI (batch|qt|glut) (default: qt )
- -l --load
- load given plugins (default: )
AUTHORS¶
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.