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🐝 Bee Traits Heritability & Selective Breeding Simulator

Selective-breeding simulator for honey bee colonies: pick a trait, breed the top performers, and watch the population's colour, size and temperament shift generation by generation.

Genetics & Evolution3DModerate60 FPS

Details

CategoryGenetics & Evolution

RenderingThree.js · WebGL

DifficultyModerate

Target FPS60

ControlsSelection-criterion buttons (Gentleness / Honey yield / Body colour) choose which trait drives breeding; selection-intensity slider (5-60%) sets what fraction of the colony becomes parents; mutation-strength slider (0-0.2) adds Gaussian noise to offspring traits; 'Breed next generation' advances one generation with real averaging + mutation genetics; 'Reset population' restarts from a random founder colony; orbit camera around the hive.

Three.jsInstancedMeshpopulation geneticsheritabilityselective breedinghoney bees

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⚙ Under the hood

Selective-breeding simulator for a 160-bee colony: pick gentleness, honey yield or colour depth as the selection criterion, set selection intensity and mutation strength, and breed generation after generation to watch the population's trait distribution shift and genetic diversity narrow.

Three.jsInstancedMeshpopulation geneticsheritabilityselective breedinghoney bees

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