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🐝 Beehive Foraging: Waggle-Dance Recruitment (2D)

A 2D honeybee colony forages from a hive to flower patches of different yields. Scouts discover patches and recruit nestmates via a waggle-dance-style signal scaled by patch profitability, an Artificial-Bee-Colony-inspired exploration/exploitation balance.

Animals & Their World2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

Details

CategoryAnimals & Their World

RenderingCanvas 2D

DifficultyModerate

Target FPS60

ControlsBees slider sets the colony size, Patches slider sets how many flower patches exist, Recruit slider scales how strongly a good patch's dance recruits idle bees, Speed slider scales simulation speed, + Patch button adds a new flower patch at a random location, Reset button restarts the simulation, Click the canvas (away from the hive) to plant a flower patch there

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⚙ Under the hood

Bees forage from a hive to flower patches with different amounts of nectar, shown on a 2D canvas. When a bee finds a good patch and returns to the hive, it performs a dance. The dance lasts longer for richer, closer patches. Other idle bees watch the dance and are recruited to that patch with a probability based on the dance quality and a recruitment-strength setting you control.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install