scruz03/covid19-animation-generator

Generates an animation of COVID-19 data

COVID-19 Animation Generator

Generates an animation based on COVID-19 daily data.

• Explanation: minutephysics: How To Tell If We're Beating COVID-19
• Data:
  • Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases, provided by JHU CSSE
  • Datos covid19 en Chile by Jorge Perez

Requirements

• Node 12.x
• Gulp: npm install -g gulp

Initialize

• Run: npm install

Build

• Clean: gulp clean
• Build: gulp build

Running

node dist/main

The data is downloaded automatically

Parameters

• --help (optional): Displays a help message and exits.
• --source (optional): Sets the data source. Default: global. Possible values:
  • global: Compare countries
  • us: Compare states (US)
  • chile: Compare regions (Chile)
• --schema (optional): Sets the color schema. Default: dark. Possible values:
  • dark: Dark theme
• --layout (optional): Sets the output layout. Default: vertical. Possible values:
  • square: Square layout (1250x1250)
  • vertical: Vertical layout (1080x1920)
  • horizontal: Horizontal layout (1920x1080)
• --days (optional): Number of days for which the animation will be generated. Default: 20. Use 0 to plot all days.
• --frames (optional): Number of frames per day. Default: 30.
• --extraFrames (optional): Number of extra frames for the last image. Default: 300.

Examples

• node dist/main
• node dist/main --source global
• node dist/main --layout square
• node dist/main --source us --layout vertical
• node dist/main --source us --layout vertical --frames 20

Output

The generated images will be in the output directory

Generate animation

You can generate an animation (60 fps). Requires ffmpeg. Run:

npm run video

The video will be here: output/animation.mp4