What formulas size the buildings and car park?

Car-park spaces = ceil(visitors / 12); visitor-centre floor area = 40 + visitors × 0.35 m²; staff welfare floor area = 8 + staff × 3.6 m²; sting-safe buffer radius = 3 + hives × 0.22 m. These are the same sizing rules the 3D masterplan applies.

Why does the staff welfare building not grow with visitor numbers?

Workplace welfare guidance sizes rest rooms, changing space and toilets against employee headcount, independent of how busy the site is — so the staff building only responds to the staff slider, never the visitors slider.

How does this differ from the 3D version?

The 3D masterplan renders the same site plan as an orbitable 3D scene; this 2D companion draws the identical footprints and buffer geometry from directly overhead and adds a live numeric readout of every derived quantity (floor areas, spaces, buffer distance, total footprint) next to the plan.

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Planning an Apiary Visitor Centre (2D)

2D top-down masterplan lab: drag visitor, hive and staff sliders to see the sting-safe buffer, car park, visitor-centre and staff-welfare floor areas resize from the same sizing formulas as the 3D version.

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This 2D companion drives the same masterplan sizing formulas as the 3D version through a plain top-down site-plan view: a side panel exposes the visitor, hive and staff sliders plus the sting-safe buffer and accessible-route toggles, and a live readout shows the exact visitor-centre and staff-welfare floor areas, car-park spaces and buffer distance the plan computes — so the three sizing rules that pull against each other on a real apiary site plan (footfall-driven public space, headcount-driven staff space, and a hive-count-driven safety clearance) are visible as numbers next to the shapes, not just shapes alone.

⚙ Under the hood

2D top-down apiary masterplan applying the same footfall, headcount and hive-count sizing formulas as the 3D version, with a live numeric readout of every derived floor area, car-park count and buffer distance.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install