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Real-time multi-physics simulation with an emphasis on medical simulation.

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Create and modify realistic physics simulations, especially for medical applications, using this open-source framework.

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Real-time multi-physics simulation with an emphasis on medical simulation.

sofa has 1.2k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 360 times. sofa is written mainly in C++. It has been in active development since 2016. sofa is available under the LGPL-2.1 license. Its main topics are cpp, engine, framework, medical.

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What is sofa?

Real-time multi-physics simulation with an emphasis on medical simulation.

Is sofa open source?

sofa is an open-source project. It is released under the LGPL-2.1 license.

Is sofa free?

Yes. sofa is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it. Its LGPL-2.1 license is copyleft: if you distribute a modified version, it must remain under the same license.

What license does sofa use?

sofa is available under the LGPL-2.1 license.

What language is sofa written in?

sofa is written mainly in C++.

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