CASEIRModeling

Cellular Automata & Epidemiology Computing

Modeling infectious diseases using the SEIR model struct and a celullar automata in C.

Study Resources

Epidemiology and Celullar Automata

• Celullar Automata, A Discrete View of the World, Joel L. Schiff
• Modeling Infectious Diseases in Humans and Animals, Matt J. Keeling and Pejman Rohani

Real-world data

• The Incubation Period of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) From Publicly Reported Confirmed Cases, Lauer et al.
• Temporal dynamics in viral shedding and transmissibility of COVID-19, He et al.

Tools

• C: for simulation
• SDL2 for GUI real-time visualiation of the simulation
• Main Python libraries used for visualization: pandas, numpy, scipy, seaborn, matplotlib

Reused Code

• Conway's Game of Life in C++ that I've implemented a few years ago. Mainly used to guide a reimplementation of a Celullar Automata in C
• Basic code for SDL2 video initialization and rendering. Used ChatGPT to get an example

Installation

• Run run.sh to run the simulation and gather data to generate plot maps. It assumes that the C binary is already compiled with make build