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🧊 Why Ice Floats: Buoyancy and Density Science Short (3D)

A sixty-second interactive, scientifically grounded Three.js film explaining why ice floats.

Everyday Physics3DEasy60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted🤖 ChatGPT⇄ 2D version

⚙ Under the hood

A 60-second interactive 3D science short in five chapters: an ice cube (917 kg/m3) floats in fresh water (1000 kg/m3) with 91.7% submerged. Move the sliders and the same hydrostatic-equilibrium equations drive the cube, the measurement lines and the live numbers; a scripted saltwater chapter changes the water density. Static-equilibrium model, not drop dynamics.

BuoyancyDensityArchimedesScience FilmThree.js

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