MILESTONE 8 : Demo autoconversion, Stream live simulations

[blairlyons]

Demonstrate autoconversion

• [x] https://github.com/simularium/simularium-planning/issues/45

Autoconversion will remove Python scripting as a barrier to visualizing data from existing simulation engines, which will save users a lot of time and complication. Autoconversion is a large feature, so we will start with a prototype in this milestone.

Demonstrate streaming with octopus (Python engine)

• [x] https://github.com/simularium/simularium-planning/issues/51

The octopus team is working on a prototype for a Python engine to replace the current C++ engine. Our goal is to demonstrate streaming, both from a pre-computed file and then from a live simulation, and test performance of the Python engine in terms of how many concurrent users it can handle.

More example models, especially with PDB

• [x] https://github.com/simularium/simularium-planning/issues/35

We will also try to convert data for more example models that can be added to the website, especially including PDB to showcase that rendering method.

User groups & personas

• [x] https://github.com/simularium/simularium-planning/issues/85

[jsavieo]

@blairlyons and @jsavieo move UI polish to milestone 9