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📋 Beekeeping Records: Logs, Apps and Spreadsheets

A 3D spiral of weekly hive-inspection tiles shows how paper journals, spreadsheets and apps differ in how much real hive data actually gets captured — and how gaps hide swarm and mite risk.

Biology & Life3DModerate60 FPS

Details

CategoryBiology & Life

RenderingThree.js · WebGL

DifficultyModerate

Target FPS60

ControlsRecording method select (paper/spreadsheet/app) · Inspection interval slider · Season progress scrub slider · Highlight-missing-records toggle · Mite trend-line toggle · New season button

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A rising spiral of 24 weekly hive-inspection tiles shows how much of a hive's real story — mite counts, honey stores, queen sightings — actually makes it into the record depending on whether you write it on paper, type it into a spreadsheet, or log it in an app.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Tile colour tracks varroa mite pressure, tile height tracks honey stores, and a glowing thread connects only the fully-logged weeks — showing exactly which trends a beekeeper could and couldn't have caught from their own notes.

🎮 How to Use

Pick a recording method and inspection interval, then scrub through the season. Toggle the gap highlight to see unlogged weeks pulse red, and the trend line to see how broken or complete the mite-risk picture really is.

💡 Did You Know?

The same underlying hive history is reused across methods — only the recording habits change — so switching from "Paper journal" to "Mobile app" on an identical season is a fair side-by-side test of how much data survives.

⚙ Under the hood

A rotatable 3D spiral of 24 weekly hive-inspection tiles whose colour (mite pressure), height (honey stores) and glow (queen sighting) reveal how much real hive data survives paper journals, spreadsheets or app logging — with a trend thread that breaks wherever records are missing or incomplete.

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