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Manta Cleaning Station Lab (2D)

A 2D top-down queueing simulation: manta rays build up parasite load while cruising open water, join a first-in-first-out queue once the reef station's cleaner-fish slots are full, and get serviced. Adjust slot count and service time to see queue length and wait time respond.

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

This 2D companion builds the real mechanic the 3D lab's title implies but its generic flocking engine never modeled: a genuine multi-server queueing system. Parasite load rises on every manta while it cruises open water; once it crosses a threshold it joins a FIFO queue for the station's cleaner-fish slots, waits its turn, and gets serviced — with queue length, average wait time and throughput tracked live, the same variables a real M/M/c queueing model would report.

⚙ Under the hood

A first-in-first-out queue feeding a configurable number of cleaning slots; parasite load climbs during open water and decays linearly during service. Wait time and throughput are measured directly from the simulation, not display-only formulas.

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