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🎧 Reading the Mood of the Hive

A 3D hive cutaway with a live bioacoustic sensor readout: watch bee movement, buzz frequency, sound level and hive vibration shift together as colony agitation rises toward swarming.

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A 3D hive cutaway paired with a live bioacoustic sensor readout — bee movement, buzz frequency, sound level and hive vibration all shift together as modelled colony agitation rises from a calm hum toward a swarming exodus.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Real hive-monitoring sensors track sound and vibration as proxies for colony state. This model links a single agitation value to bee flight speed, a synthetic frequency spectrum, an oscilloscope-style waveform and an exodus of bees at high agitation — without claiming to measure bee emotion directly.

🎮 How to Use

Pick a colony-state preset or drag the agitation slider directly, toggle auto environmental drift, and tap the hive to inject a short disturbance spike. Watch the frequency bars, waveform and bee behaviour respond together.

💡 Did You Know?

Some precision-apiculture systems flag likely swarm preparation days in advance purely from rising, broadening acoustic and vibration trends, combined with hive weight and temperature — before a beekeeper would notice a crowded box.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D hive cutaway with bees orbiting the comb next to a live bioacoustic sensor readout — a 3D frequency-bar spectrum and scrolling oscilloscope waveform that shift from a calm green hum toward an alarmed swarming exodus as a single modelled agitation value rises.

colony-behaviourbioacousticsprecision-apiculturehive-sensorsbee-cognitionswarm-detection

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