JuliaCon 2020 (times are in UTC)

DynamicGrids.jl: high-performance spatial simulations in Julia
07-31, 18:00–18:30 (UTC), Purple Track

DynamicGrids.jl is a new framework for constructing, running and visualising gridded spatial simulations, in Julia, developed for organism dispersal modelling with Dispersal.jl, but but generalised to be applicable to a wide range of contexts.


DynamicGrids.jl facilitates the easy construction of custom high-performance spatial simulations. It provides tools to construct simple simulations like the game-of-life and other cellular automata, but also complex, multi-rule and even multi-grid simulations that can involve random grid writes and grid interactions. DynamicGridsGtk.jl and DynamicGridsInteract.jl provide live visual interfaces, where simulations can be tweaked in real-time. Dispersal.jl will be used to demonstrate its potential.

I'm an ecologist, spending a lot of my time building spatial ecological models of plant and insect growth and population dynamics, at cesar (Melbourne), UNSW, and the University of Melbourne.