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🚢 Canal Lock Hydraulics: Ride the Water Stairs

Interactive 3D canal lock where opening and closing gates and sluices raises or lowers a boat between two water levels, showing how gravity alone moves vessels uphill and downhill.

Civil Engineering & Structural Mechanics3DModerate60 FPS💧 Water

A fully automated canal lock cycle showing gates closing, sluices equalizing the chamber's water level with gravity flow alone, and a boat rising or falling to match the destination canal segment.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

A fully automated canal lock cycle showing gates closing, sluices equalizing the chamber's water level with gravity flow alone, and a boat rising or falling to match the destination canal segment.

🎮 How to Use

Choose Rising or Falling direction and adjust the cycle speed, then watch the phase and water-level readouts as the animation runs; pause or restart the cycle anytime.

💡 Did You Know?

Real lock gates rely entirely on water pressure balance for safety — they physically cannot be forced open until both sides read the same level, the same equilibrium principle animated in this simulation.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D canal lock where opening and closing gates and sluices raises or lowers a boat between two water levels using gravity alone.

canal-lockhydraulicswater-engineeringgravity-flowcivil-engineeringfluid-dynamics

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