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🐝 Rooftop Apiary Logistics

Interactive 3D rooftop scene where planning a hoist path for hive equipment and adjusting roof-level wind and heat exposure shows simulated microclimate effects on a rooftop colony.

Ecology & Conservation Biology3DModerate60 FPS💨 Air & Wind

A rooftop apiary scene where a davit crane hoists hive equipment from street level up to a landing zone, while roof-edge wind and sun-heated membrane create a microclimate visibly different from a ground-level garden.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Wind accelerating over a parapet produces a turbulent wake that buffets hives unless broken by a baffle screen, and a hot roof membrane radiates heat that a colony must fan and beard to shed — both visualised as live particle fields.

🎮 How to Use

Adjust wind speed and roof surface heat to see turbulence and heat-haze respond, toggle the windbreak to shorten the wake reaching the hives, and run the hoist cycle to watch a loaded pallet travel from the street to the roof.

💡 Did You Know?

Many UK rooftop apiary sites use a goods hoist or davit arm rather than stairwells, because a loaded National hive box is too wide and heavy to carry safely up a typical fire-escape stair.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D rooftop scene where planning a hoist path for hive equipment and adjusting roof-level wind and heat exposure shows simulated microclimate effects on a rooftop colony.

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