Agrivoltaics Dual-Yield Farm (2D)
A side-view agrivoltaics lab: real sun-elevation shadow geometry sweeps across the crop bed under elevated panel rows, a Michaelis-Menten light-response curve turns each point's accumulated daily light into crop yield, and a live Land Equivalent Ratio compares the shared field against two separate monocultures.
This 2D companion trades the 3D version's orbiting instanced-mesh grid for a side-view cross-section built on real shadow geometry: panel-row shadows lengthen and swing from west to east across the day following shadow = height / tan(sun elevation), each of 140 ground points accumulates its own Daily Light Integral as the shadow sweeps over and off it, and at the end of every simulated day that DLI feeds a Michaelis-Menten light-response curve — the same saturating-curve model used for real crop-physiology light response — to produce a crop-yield fraction relative to an unshaded reference field. The Energy yield readout integrates instantaneous panel power (proportional to irradiance, coverage and sin of the sun's elevation) across the same day, and the Land Equivalent Ratio combines both: crop-yield fraction plus panel coverage, the actual metric agrivoltaic field trials report to show whether a shared field out-produces two separate ones.
2D side-view agrivoltaics lab: real sun-elevation shadow geometry sweeps across a crop bed under elevated panel rows, a Michaelis-Menten light-response curve turns accumulated daily light into crop yield, and a live Land Equivalent Ratio compares the shared field against two separate monocultures.
2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install