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We visualized a cough to show how far respiratory droplets can spread. If you haven’t been keeping your distance to fight the coronavirus, this may persuade you.\nWe also used augmented reality to show you how social distancing guidelines can apply in real life: at the grocery store, on the sidewalk, or anywhere else.
The project consisted of three technical innovations:
Parsing and visualizing simulation data: Using a particle simulation of how respiratory droplets spread, we parsed VTK datasets, filtered and converted them into a format that can be played back in real time.
Augmented Reality: We used augmented reality to show you how social distancing guidelines can apply in real life: at the grocery store, on the sidewalk, or anywhere else.
Interactive Visualization: We used WebGL to create an interactive visualization of the simulation data.
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By Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Bedel Saget, Karthik Patanjali, Or Fleisher and Gabriel Gianordoli. Sources: Masashi Yamakawa, Kyoto Institute of Technology; Donald K. Milton, Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, University of Maryland School of Public Health; Pratim Biswas, Aerosol and Air Quality Research Laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis; Barry Scharfman, Head of Data Science at PA Aerospace & Defense. Makiko Inoue contributed reporting from Tokyo. Additional work by Jon Huang and Mark McKeague.