*[Getting started with iMSTK](#getting-started-with-imstk)
*[Getting the source code](#1-getting-the-source-code)
*[Setting up your SSH key](#2-setting-up-your-ssh-key)
*[Building iMSTK](#3-building-imstk)
*[Using iMSTK in your application](#using-imstk-in-your-application)
## About
### Overview
iMSTK is a C++ based free & open-source toolkit that aids rapid prototyping of real-time multi-modal surgical simulation scenarios. Surgical simulation scenarios involve algorithms from diverse areas such as haptics, advanced rendering, computational geometry, computational mechanics, virtual reality and parallel computing. iMSTK employs a highly modular and extensible design to enable the use of libraries and codes from these areas in a given application thereby reducing the development time.