viruscope

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  The spread of this disease is being slowed by

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  A highly infectious virus being stopped by a "wall" of vaccinated people.

Inspiration

Various cellular automata, especially Conway's Game of Life.

What it does

Simulates the spread of a currently unknown disease, e.g. COVID-19, in a world of discrete cells.

How we built it

Typescript. The actual rule set is only ~100 lines of code, but it does a lot.

Challenges we ran into

We had to abandon our first idea--a smart home for mice--because we realized our lack of experience with hardware. So we pivoted to this project instead, to fit into the "Disaster Planning/Recovery" prompt category.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The project shows real-life behaviors like herd immunity (when many people are vaccinated, a disease's spread can be stopped) despite its simple ruleset. Aims to educate individuals on the importance of disease prevention.

What we learned

Keyboard, mouse, screen and speakers is all the I/O you'll ever need to make a creative yet useful tool.

What's next for antivirus

This tool is fun to play with and we think that just playing with the parameters can help people learn something about how disease is spread, despite the model's inaccuracies.

Built With

• typescript
• vite
• wasm