Simulating the spread of an infection using a cellular automoton.

About

For this project I wanted to be able to use a huge cellular automaton for my simulation, so since it would take so long to do all the calculations for each generation I decided to use a multithreaded approach, as well as splitting my application into two programs:

• A multithreaded C program which will do all the calculations and output data for each generation to a file.
• A JavaScript program to read in this output file, and display the data alongside live statistics for the current simulation.

Technologies Used

• C

  • PThread library

• JavaScript

  • Node.js
  • Terra.js
  • Chart.js

To use

This program is displayed on a webserver but is currently not hosted, so to run you will need Node.js installed.

• Open the project folder with a CLI and use the command npm install to install all dependencies.
• Then use node app to run the program.
• Finally go to localhost:3000 on a web browser to start.

Note: The provided 'output.txt' will allow the simulation to run but since this project uses the PThreads library. It is only possible to generate and run additional simulations while using Linux.

Demonstration

The following YouTube video shows a simulation from start to finish.