Announcement: iMSTK 1.0.0

We are introducing Interactive Medical Simulation Toolkit (iMSTK)-a free & open source software toolkit written in C++ that aids rapid prototyping of interactive multi-modal surgical simulations.

For more information, visit our website

http://www.imstk.org/

Features

• Cross-platform build
• CMake automated superbuild
• Test infrastructure (via google test)
• Continuous Integration
• Scene and simulation management
• Vulkan and VTK rendering backends
• Advanced rendering: Physically based rendering, Subsurface scattering, Decals, Shadows,
• Graphical overlays (Vulkan backend only)
• Standard user controls (pause, run, exit, pan-zoom-rotate)
• SteamVR support including (Oculus, HTC Vive (VTK backend only)
• Finite elements (linear, co-rotational, non-linear formulations)
• Position based dynamics
• Penalty and constraint-based collision handling
• Linear solvers: Direct and Iterative matrix solvers
• Non-linear Newton solver
• Collision detection (CCD, Spatial hash based collision, narrow phase queries)
• External device support (VRPN)
• Support for standard mesh input formats (.obj, .dae, .fbx., .stl, .vtk, .vtu, etc.)
• Asynchronous logging (using g3log)
• Audio support
• Haptic rendering (OpenHaptics)

Contributors for this release

Venkata Sreekanth Arikatla, Alexis Girault, Nicholas Boris Milef, Ricardo Ortiz, Thien Nguyen, Rachel Clipp, Mohit Tyagi, Samantha Horvath, Jean-Baptiste Vimort, Sean Radigan, David Thompson, Dženan Zukić, Mayeul Chassagnard, Tansel Halic, Hina Shah, Andinet Enquobahrie, Hong Li, Shusil Dangi