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Pesticide Runoff & Buffer Strip Filtration

Interactive 3D field model: pesticide-laden rainfall runs off a sprayed field toward a stream, and a vegetative buffer strip traps a fraction of it before it arrives. Tune rainfall, dose, strip width and vegetation density and watch the exponential trapping model play out live.

Ecology & Conservation Biology3DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 2D version
pesticides-pollution ↗ Open standalone

A sprayed field slopes down toward a stream, and every rain event mobilises a fraction of the applied pesticide as overland runoff. This simulator renders that field in 3D: droplets leave the sprayed zone, slide downhill, and either get intercepted by a vegetative buffer strip along the stream bank or escape into the water. The strip's trapping follows the exponential vegetative filter strip model used in real runoff mitigation studies — retention depends on strip width and vegetation density together, not either one alone — and live counters track how many droplets were trapped, how many reached the stream, and the resulting stream concentration as you tune rainfall intensity, spray dose, strip width and vegetation density.

⚙ Under the hood

Watch pesticide-laden rainfall run off a sprayed field toward a stream, and see how a vegetative buffer strip's width and vegetation density combine to trap it exponentially before it arrives.

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

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