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)