2 Meters Apart

Inspiration

Amid the COVID-19 situation ,we were curious about aerosols and its role in infectious diseases. We first need to build the framework, i.e.: a working simulation purely in terms of distancing.

What it does

Simulates the propagation of an infectious disease over time in relation to a fixed population of people in a fixed space.

How We Built It

We built it using Java. Algorithmically, we used/plan to use threading and sorting algorithms to make this run as efficiently as possible. This is imperative, as we would ideally like to run this over very large populations.

Challenges We Ran Into

We need to do more research on threading. We would like to be able to simulate this visually, so perhaps Unity would be in our close future (as well as another coding language). We further need to look into MCMC algorithms to calculate the probability of contagion more accurately.

Accomplishments that We're Proud Of

We are proud of our algorithm design and our progress for our first hackathon.

What We Learned

We learned a lot regarding infectious diseases, and got to implement algorithms we learn in school, thereby giving us more of a grasp pf coding and OOD.

What's Next for 2 Meters Apart

Finishing the code and getting some stats, then learning how to visually simulate the project. We would also like to expand different situation onto this one as this is merely a "base-case."

A Link to Our PPT and Code

Please try the github link!

Built With

• canva
• java