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🍎 Partnering with Orchards: Pollination Contracts and Fruit Set

A 3D orchard where hive placement, colony strength, bloom timing and spray notice determine how much fruit each row actually sets.

Agronomy & Soil Physics3DAdvanced60 FPS

A 3D orchard where you control the terms of a pollination contract — colony strength, bloom timing, hive placement and grower spray notice — and watch how each decision changes how much fruit actually sets on the branch.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Fruit set on each tree depends on forager numbers, how well delivery timing matches peak bloom, and simple foraging distance from the nearest hive — plus the lasting cost of an unprotected spray pass.

🎮 How to Use

Adjust colony strength and bloom sync, compare edge-clustered against distributed hive placement, then run a spray event with or without bee notice and watch colony losses and fruit set respond.

💡 Did You Know?

Because honeybees rarely forage more than a couple of hundred metres from the hive when better forage is closer, where pallets are dropped in an orchard can matter as much as how many colonies are rented.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D orchard where hive placement, colony strength, bloom timing and spray notice determine how much fruit each row actually sets.

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