Figure 2

Visualization of the contact structure in the simulated population; the number of contacts decreases from red over yellow, green, light blue to dark blue. (a) POLYMOD contact structure before initialization of the contact network. (b) Contact network after a 10-year initialisation period during which the contact network is allowed to evolve while keeping the demographic structure of Germany from 1993 constant. (c) to (f) contact structure in later years. The grey bar charts on the right hand sides of the contact visualizations show the demographic distribution of Germany of the given years.