engineon

Engineon is a modular software framework designed for simulation, visualization, and interactive development. It provides a unified environment to model physical systems, render 3D scenes, and integrate custom logic through scripting and plugins. The core aim is to support rapid prototyping and scalable deployment across research, industry, and education.

Development of Engineon began in the mid-2010s as an open-source project intended to unify physics, graphics, and scripting. Through successive releases, it adopted an entity-component-system architecture, a data-driven pipeline, and a plugin-based module system, enabling researchers to attach custom physics solvers, AI modules, or rendering backends without rebuilding the core.

Architecture and features include a cross-platform core, a physics engine with rigid and soft body dynamics, and real-time rendering powered by a scene graph. It also provides a modular AI and scripting layer, multi-threading support, GPU-accelerated compute, and deterministic simulation modes for research. Additional capabilities cover serialization, scene interchange formats, and a remote visualization protocol for distributed workflows.

Applications of Engineon span robotics simulation, automotive prototyping, virtual product testing, and educational demonstrations. Its open architecture makes it suitable for academic experiments, game development prototyping, and interactive training tools.

Licensing and community aspects describe Engineon as released under an open-source license with community governance and contribution guidelines. It maintains a public issue tracker, comprehensive documentation, and a modular example library to assist new users.