sofa(1) 																   sofa(1)

NAME

       sofa - SOFA GUI

SYNOPSIS

       sofa [OPTIONS]

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.

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation for sofa is available at <http://www.sofa-framework.org>

								    August 2008 							   sofa(1)