# safe-seats

**Repository Path**: mirrors_deckar01/safe-seats

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: safe-seats
- **Description**: Simulate theater seating capacity with the COVID-19 pandemic distancing requirements.
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-09-24
- **Last Updated**: 2026-04-04

## Categories & Tags

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## README

# Safe Seats

<a alt="Safe Seats" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3108007/90459142-07f71080-e0c6-11ea-9efb-fff4f6d60fce.png"><img width="870" alt="Safe Seats" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3108007/90457503-5b1a9480-e0c1-11ea-930d-50d47c531f1c.png"></a>

Simulate theater seating capacity with the COVID-19 pandemic distancing requirements.

## Usage

`./compare.py` run trials to compare the average capacity with and without blocking alternating rows.

`./preview_row_block.py` a terminal rendering of a random theater simulation with blocking alternating rows.

`./preview_free_block.py` a terminal rendering of a random theater simulation without blocking rows.

## Visualization key

- Blue cells are reserved. The letter indicates which group it belongs to.
- Red cells are removed to enforce distancing after each reservation. The letter indicates the group that made the reservation.
- Grey cells are blocked by the theater.
- The white bar at the top represents the screen.

## Assumptions

The layout and blocked rows were sampled from a screen at my local theater. The seat and isle sizes
were estimated based on my own experiences.

The number of people in a group (seated without distancing) is assumed to have a log-normal distribution that
peaks just below 2 and falls off slowly around 5.

The ideal theater seat is assumed to be centered horizontally and the distance from the screen is assumed to be
a random preference with a normal distrobution centered around the middle row.

The logic for choosing the first seat in a reservation is to pick the closest available seat to a randomly selected ideal seat.

The logic for choosing additional seats for a group favors the same row by squaring the Y distance twice
when minimizing the euclidean distance to the first seat.

All of these models can be tweaked at the top of `theater.py`.

## Legal

This is not medical advice.