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Limiting Factor Field — Liebig's Law of the Minimum

Interactive 3D field of growing plants: tune light, water, nitrogen and temperature independently and watch growth get capped by whichever resource is scarcest, exactly as Liebig's Law of the Minimum predicts.

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A field of 3D 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. 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 3D field of 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.

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