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Limiting Factor Field 2D: Top-Down Liebig's Law Canopy

Top-down 2D field of growing plants: tune light, water, nitrogen and temperature independently and watch canopy growth get capped by whichever resource is scarcest, exactly as Liebig's Law of the Minimum predicts. Drag to pan and scroll to zoom over the field.

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A top-down field of 121 plants that grows exactly the way real ecosystems do: not by the average of the resources available, but by whichever single factor — light, water, soil nitrogen or temperature — is scarcest. Adjust each factor independently and watch the canopy's growth rate track only the current bottleneck; raising an already-abundant resource does nothing until you relieve the one actually holding growth back. Drag to pan across the field and scroll to zoom in on individual plants; live readouts track the growth rate, average plant height, and the field's yield as a fraction of its full potential.

⚙ Under the hood

A top-down 2D field of 121 growing plants whose growth rate is capped by whichever resource — light, water, nitrogen or temperature — is currently scarcest, demonstrating Liebig's Law of the Minimum. Drag to pan and scroll to zoom over the canopy.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install