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Chemokine Field Map: Neutrophil Chemotaxis & NETosis

Interactive 2D chemokine-field simulator: a diffusion-decay PDE is solved on a live grid to build the concentration field around a bacterial infection, and neutrophils climb its finite-difference gradient with a biased random walk, phagocytose bacteria, and release NETs when locally overwhelmed.

Medicine & Biophysics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version
2d-infectious-diseases ↗ Open standalone

A 2D reaction-diffusion grid stands in for the immune battlefield: bacteria at an infection site continuously feed a chemokine field that diffuses and decays across the arena, rendered live as a heatmap. Neutrophils never see the bacteria directly — they sample the field's finite-difference gradient and climb it with a biased random walk, exactly the leukocyte chemotaxis law from the 3D version, but measured off a genuinely simulated PDE instead of an analytic point-source sum. Phagocytosis, NETosis and the live readouts behave identically to the original — tune severity, recruitment, chemotactic sensitivity and the NETosis threshold and watch the field and the response evolve together.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 2D chemokine-field simulator: a diffusion-decay PDE is solved on a live grid to build the concentration field around a bacterial infection, and neutrophils climb its finite-difference gradient with a biased random walk, phagocytose bacteria, and release NETs when locally overwhelmed.

immunologyneutrophilchemotaxisinfectionnetosisinnate-immunityreaction-diffusionpde-simulation

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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