Stopping the Spread - Peach Tree Disease

We propose a system that models the spread of disease throughout the branches of an individual fruit tree and determines the “optimal” shape to which a tree should be pruned in order to minimize the spread of disease. Our system is unique because of its scope; while many cellular automata (CA) models simulate the spread of disease between distinct individuals, we model infection between different parts of a single entity. This system consists of four major parts: (1) individual tree generation in a grid space, (2) a CA representation to model the spread of disease, (3) visualization of this model, and (4) optimal tree shape analysis. Ultimately, we hope that our model can serve as a novel computational approach to making tree maintenance decisions and can provide general insight into prevention of tree-borne disease.
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