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


http://www.sofa-framework.org/