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🔥 Mastering the Bee Smoker

An interactive 3D cutaway of a lit bee smoker — tune fuel, airflow and puffing rate to produce cool, dense smoke and watch the colony's calm response change in real time.

Biology & Life3DModerate60 FPS

A 3D cutaway of a lit bee smoker whose fuel, air vent and bellows technique you control directly, driving live smoke temperature and density — and a nearby cluster of bees that visibly calms or scatters in response.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Cool, dense, steady smoke calms a colony; hot, thin or intermittent smoke agitates it. The model derives smoke temperature and density from fuel choice, air vent opening and bellows rhythm, then feeds a live "colony calm score."

🎮 How to Use

Pick a fuel, open or close the air vent, and set a puffing rate — or fire single puffs by hand. Toggle the cutaway to watch the fire chamber and embers, and watch the bees near the hive settle or scatter as your technique changes.

💡 Did You Know?

Smoke doesn't sedate bees chemically — it masks alarm pheromone and triggers an instinctive fire-response feeding reflex, which is why cool, well-managed smoke works far better than a hot, roaring smoker.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D cutaway of a lit bee smoker where fuel choice, air vent and bellows puffing rate drive live smoke temperature and density, and a nearby cluster of instanced bees visibly calms or scatters in response.

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