🧊 Cryo-Ecosystem Model

A colony of psychrophile microorganisms drifts through a subsurface ocean below an ice shell, fed by a hydrothermal vent at the seafloor. Each cell's fitness follows Liebig's law of the minimum across thermal, nutrient, salinity and pressure niches — the weakest factor caps survival. Orbit the camera to watch population respond to your parameters in real 3D space.

Environment parameters

Population readout

Population–
Avg. fitness (BPI)–
Limiting factor–
Sampled biomass–
Elapsed sim time00:00
High fitness (thriving)
Low fitness (stressed)
Sampling probe
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