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Green Infrastructure Cooling Grid

Place a fixed budget of trees onto a city grid, concentrated into a park or scattered evenly across it, and watch a live thermal map show why clustering greenery cools a neighbourhood far more than spreading the same number of trees thin.

Ecology & Conservation Biology3DModerate60 FPS

Dense cities dominated by dark asphalt and concrete trap solar heat and run measurably hotter than their surroundings — the urban heat island effect. Trees fight this two ways: shading blocks sunlight from ever heating the surface below, and evapotranspiration actively cools the air the way sweat cools skin. This model gives two identical city grids the exact same tree budget, but arranges one as a concentrated park and the other as trees scattered one-by-one across the district, then lets a diffusion-based heat model show which arrangement actually moves the neighbourhood-average temperature.

⚙ Under the hood

Place a fixed tree budget onto two identical city grids — concentrated into one park or scattered evenly across the district — and watch a live thermal map and average-temperature readout show why clustered green infrastructure cools a neighbourhood far more than the same trees spread thin.

Urban Heat IslandGreen InfrastructureEvapotranspirationUrban EcologyThree.js

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