Description20200403 Flatten the curve animated GIF.gif
English: Animated graphic showing "flattening the curve" by slowing the spread of pandemics such as Coronavirus, so that health care demands stay within capacity.
Designer's note:
An "international" version, without text, is shown and linked below.
Graphic was made in response to a request at Commons:Graphic Lab/Illustration workshop (diff).
I made 49 individual graphic frames manually with Inkskape (esp. its Bezier tool) and exported as 49 unique PNGs. I imported the 49 PNGs as layers into Gimp. To pad the beginning and end with a "stationary" intro and finish, I added about 33 extra first and last frames within Gimp before exporting as a 30 ms/frame GIF.
Example of visualizing changing healthcare capacity (sloping dashed line) is found at:
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Animated graphic showing "flattening the curve" by slowing the spread of pandemics such as Coronavirus, so that health care demands stay within capacity