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Antibiotic Resistance Simulation

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Inspired by this Harvard antibiotics resistance study I wanted to build a simulation of evolution.

In this simulation the cells each produce a number, determined by its "genes", which are two random numbers added together. As they reproduce, sometimes those genes mutate, and the cells produce a new number. When they mutate, they are assigned a different color in the visualization.

The "petri dish" is divided into 9 sections, like in the Harvard study. In place of exponentially increasing amounts of antibiotics in each column, the survival criteria is whether the cell's number is divisible by an increasingly large number.

This is my admission entry to visFest 2016 =)