Revision as of 22:33, 29 July 2010

Virus! A project for 427

Virus! simulates the spread of a virus across a plane of red blood cells, with a mix of some white blood cells to combat the infection.

Project Outline

My Design Study is to implement a simple virus simulator and to improve the design of the application through Design Patterns and OOD principles. Virus! is a very simple animated simulator of a Virus Cell infecting a host through the red blood cells. This simulator is loosely based on real world biology but is grossly simplified for purposes of the study. This is a project for COSC427 and does not work alongside any other course, unfortunately.

There are some basic rules that apply to this mini sim-world.

• Red Blood cells can be Infected

• Virus' can only infect neighboring red cells

• Virus' cannot infect White blood cells

In terms of a simple immune system three types of white blood cells exist; Dendrite Cell, Lymphocytes and Eosinophil.

• Dendritic Cells can spawn other cells.

• Lymphocytes can kill viruses (and restore Red Blood Cells).

• Eosinophil cannot be infected. But does nothing more.

For some basic references see White Blood Cell

Initial Design

This is a basic overview of the simulator. It shows a basic spread of red blood cells and a variety of white blood cells.

Soon diagram will live here, yes.