A Fire Spread Model: The Contagion Effect
A Fire Spread Model: The Contagion Effect
This Demonstration shows the contagion effect inherent in a spreading fire. The focus is not so much on the complex movement of the fire as on its spread, given an individual tree's wetness percentage. The power of rule-based recursion and injected randomness are used to achieve the contagion effect. Red cells are burning and tan cells are completely burned (with the rainbow color scheme); the total burn area is the sum of the red and tan cells. The network view, accessed by checking "quantify spread", shows a causal relationship in time and 2D space of the burning trees; it is further utilized to quantify the matrix plot simulation of the fire's spread.