# LavaFlow AI

- **Event:** [Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon)
- **When:** Oct 26, 12:00 PM – Nov 4, 9:00 PM (EST)
- **Where:** Online
- **Team:** [Shreya k](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/shreya_k)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/shreyakembhavi/LavaFlow-AI
- **Demo video:** https://youtu.be/kVhO7lepnHA
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/5235

LavaFlow AI is an interactive scientific computing prototype that explores how volcanic terrain influences hypothetical downhill lava-flow pathways.

The project addresses a fundamental challenge in geospatial hazard exploration: understanding how elevation, slopes, and terrain features influence potential flow directions.

Built with Python, NumPy, Streamlit, and Plotly, LavaFlow AI generates a synthetic 100×100 volcanic elevation grid and uses a deterministic D8 steepest-descent algorithm to simulate downhill pathways from user-selected eruption locations.

Users can explore terrain through interactive 2D elevation heatmaps and 3D visualizations, compare paths from neighboring starting points, and inspect structured simulation results, including elevation changes, travel distances in grid units, and stopping conditions.

The architecture also includes a Meta Model API integration designed to interpret structured simulation results and explain the terrain features influencing simulated flow behavior.

LavaFlow AI is an educational research prototype, not a validated volcanic hazard forecasting tool. Future development could incorporate real digital elevation models and physically informed lava-flow simulations.

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