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🏛️ Where Beekeeping History Lives

A walkable 3D museum gallery of beekeeping history, from woven straw skeps to the modern glass observation hive, with a timeline slider that walks visitors through five centuries of hive design.

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A walkable 3D museum gallery of beekeeping history, arranging five representative exhibits — from a coiled straw skep to a modern glass observation hive — along a timeline you can scrub through.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Moving the timeline slider or exhibit selector reveals how hive design changed over 400 years: from a fixed-comb skep that had to be destroyed to harvest honey, to Langstroth's 1852 movable-frame box that made inspection and reuse possible, to a glass case built purely for observation.

🎮 How to Use

Drag the timeline year slider or pick an exhibit from the dropdown to spotlight a pedestal and fly the camera toward it. Toggle spotlight mode, watch bees buzz inside the glass observation hive, or turn on auto-rotate to sweep the whole gallery.

💡 Did You Know?

Lorenzo Langstroth's discovery of "bee space" — the roughly 6–9mm gap bees leave unobstructed rather than filling with wax — is what let his 1852 hive design be opened and inspected without destroying the comb, launching modern beekeeping.

⚙ Under the hood

A walkable 3D museum gallery of beekeeping history, from woven straw skeps to the modern glass observation hive, with a timeline slider that walks visitors through five centuries of hive design.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install