🦅 Condor Glide Polar and MacCready Speed-to-Fly: Thermal Hop Lab
An Andean condor crosses a 24 km valley by gliding between thermals: glide polar, circling bank angle, thermal centring and the MacCready speed-to-fly rule, with a sweep that finds the fastest setting.
Animals & Their World3DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted🟠 Blender
⚙ Under the hood
An Andean condor crosses a 24 km valley by gliding between thermals: glide polar, circling bank angle, thermal centring and the MacCready speed-to-fly rule, with a sweep that finds the fastest setting.
CondorSoaringGlide PolarMacCreadyThermalsThree.jsBlender
3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install