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SCIM — Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps

2020-09-07 · by admin

SCIM is a web version of Vinay Gupta's Dartboard of Death, a planning tool for disaster resilience. The board lays out the six ways people die — injury, illness, too hot, too cold, hunger and thirst — as wedges, and distance from the individual (Person out to World) as rings. You place infrastructure on it — a power station, a water plant, a hospital — and connect what depends on what, so you can trace what fails when something goes down.

The original version

The first build was a React app with a fixed 1024-pixel board. Nodes were added, removed and connected through dropdowns in a side panel, and saved maps were pinned to IPFS. It still runs at scim.vectorless.space, now hosted here with a small replacement save API so the old share links keep working.

Version 2

Version 2 is a rewrite with clarity and usability first. The whole board — rings, wedges, nodes and arrows — is a single SVG, so it fits any screen and works with touch. Editing happens on the board itself: drag to place, click one node then another to connect, double-click to rename, undo and redo, snap to ring. On a phone the board fits the screen width and labels appear as you zoom in. Saving gives you a link to share, and maps saved by the original version open in the new one.

Try it at scim.vectorless.space/v2.