The Multiplicative Power of Masks

An Explorable Essay on How Masks Can End COVID-19

Created by Aatish Bhatia in collaboration with Henry Reich / Minute Physics.

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Aatish Bhatia 🚧	Henry 🤔	Adi Vaknin 🌍 💻	Nicolas Lehuen 🌍	Alban nablA 🌍	gnegrelligarcia 🌍 🐛	Ulkar Aghayeva 🌍
Ishan Goel 📖	mariapaula9926 🌍	Παναγιώτης Γεωργακόπουλος 🌍	ismarou 👀	progproc 🌍	Andriy Kvasnytsya 🌍 💻	khakim assidiqi 🌍
Ali Sabzevari 🌍	fbuters 🌍	dvirgili 🌍	morethanoneanimal 🌍	kasiarzynaLu 🌍	monika-brandys 🌍	Darinka Zobenica 🌍
bojanastojanova 🌍	Kisaragi Hiu 🎨	jaewoo sung 🌍

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A writeup of the mathematical results behind this essay can be found here.

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Licenses

The text of the essay is published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 license. The code is open source and published under the MIT License. The emojis are licensed by Twitter and were modified to include a custom mask design.

Libraries

This interactive uses the following libraries:

• p5.js (for canvas animations)
• plotly.js (for graphing)
• vue.js (for interactivity)
• vue-observe-visibility (to enable/disable visualizations on scroll)
• lambertw (to calculate the Lambert W function)

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