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🐝 Beeswax: Harvesting, Rendering and Working the Comb

An interactive 3D solar wax melter: watch cappings heat, melt and flow into a mould as you adjust sun angle, box tilt, ambient temperature and cappings load.

Biology & Life3DModerate60 FPS

A cutaway solar wax melter shows cappings heating on a dark tray behind angled glass, melting once the box passes wax's melting point, and trickling down into a mould where a clean block slowly rises.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Melt rate depends on how closely the box's tilt matches the sun's elevation (the greenhouse effect that builds interior heat), the ambient temperature, and how much wax is loaded onto the tray.

🎮 How to Use

Move the sun and tilt sliders to find peak alignment, raise ambient temperature, load more cappings, and slide purity to compare pale cappings wax against darker old-comb wax in the finished block.

💡 Did You Know?

Beeswax melts around 62–64°C but scorches and discolours above about 85°C, which is exactly why solar melters — gentle, slow and self-limiting — are prized over direct heat for cappings wax.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D cutaway of a solar wax melter: cappings pile on a dark tray behind tilted glass, heat up under adjustable sunlight, melt past their melting point and flow into a mould where a clean wax block rises in real time.

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