Clement-Cardot / ForestFireSimulation

Forest Fire Simulation

This is a simple forest fire simulation in JAVA. The simulation is based on the following rules:

• The simulation works by steps
• A forest is composed of trees
• Each tree can be in one of the following states: HEALTHY, BURNING, BURNED
• Each burning tree can ignite its neighbors with a certain probability
• If a tree is in the state BURNING, it will be in the state BURNED in the next step

Configuration

To configure the simulation, you can edit the config.json file located in the resources folder.

• forestWidth & forestHeight are the number of trees in the forest in width and in height. (must be an Integer)
• treeSize is the size of a tree in pixels. (must be an Integer)
• fireProbability is the probality of a burning tree to ignite its neighbors. (must be a Double between 0 and 1)
• burningTrees is a list of all the tree coordinates that will be burning at the first step. (must be a list of Coordinates Integers)

Features

• You can ignite manually a tree at anytime by clicking on it.
• The simulation works by steps, you can go to the next step by clicking on the Step button.
• You can reset the simulation by clicking on the Reset button.

Potentials Improvements

• Add a Play/Pause button.
• Add a slider to control the speed of the simulation.
• Add other types of cells like WATER or ROCK that can block the fire.

Dependencies

• Java 17
• json_simple-1.1.jar (included in the project)