Michael's Design Study

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.

Virus! Cells

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  Red Blood Cell

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  Virus Cell

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  Dendrite Cell

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  Lymphocyte Cell

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  Eosinophil Cell

Cell Rules

• 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.

• Dendrites can spawn Lymphocytes or Eosinophil (50/50 chance) cells into neighboring Red Blood Cells.
• Lymphocytes can kill neighboring 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.

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