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)