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🐬 Dolphin Pod Sonar: Echolocation Ranging (2D)

Top-down 2D model of a dolphin pod hunting by echolocation: click trains travel at the real speed of sound in seawater, reflect off fish and rocks inside a beam cone, and round-trip time is converted into range, exactly as biological sonar works.

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Top-down 2D model of a dolphin pod hunting by echolocation: click trains travel at the real speed of sound in seawater, reflect off fish and rocks inside a beam cone, and round-trip time is converted into range, exactly as biological sonar works.

Dolphin SonarEcholocationUnderwater AcousticsAnimal BehaviorPhysics

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

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