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🏛️ Preserving Beekeeping Heritage

How museums, associations and community projects catalogue, fund and digitise beekeeping's material and oral history for future generations.

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A museum scan bay digitises a straw skep, smoker, comb frame or glass photographic plate: a scanning gantry sweeps the physical object while a point-cloud digital twin is reconstructed and catalogued onto an archive wall.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Digitisation captures a fragile artifact's form as data independent of the object's physical fate. Poor storage climate visibly degrades the physical original, while the digital twin and archive record stay intact.

🎮 How to Use

Pick an artifact, adjust scan speed and storage climate risk, and watch the gantry sweep build a glowing point-cloud twin that gets catalogued onto the archive wall. Toggle the twin off, or force a catalogue entry manually.

💡 Did You Know?

Community "digitisation days" let small apicultural museums scan donors' smokers, ledgers and photographs on the spot and hand the originals straight back — building an archive without ever taking ownership.

⚙ Under the hood

How museums, associations and community projects catalogue, fund and digitise beekeeping's material and oral history for future generations.

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