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Coral Restoration (2D): Reef Growth & Bleaching Lab

A top-down Canvas2D reef where each colony grows by a logistic size curve and accumulates thermal stress using the Degree Heating Weeks method real reef managers use to predict bleaching — tune sea-temperature anomaly, water quality and outplanting effort and watch the reef respond over simulated years.

Nature & Climate2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

This 2D companion trades the 3D scene for a plain top-down view built to read the ecology directly: roughly forty coral colonies grow along a logistic curve toward their maximum size, a reef-wide Degree Heating Weeks accumulator tracks thermal stress exactly the way NOAA's Coral Reef Watch does, and active outplanting seeds new juveniles onto open substrate at whatever rate you set — so cause and effect between temperature, water quality and restoration effort stay visible instead of buried in a 3D camera orbit.

⚙ Under the hood

Logistic colony growth (dr/dt = k·r·(1−r/rmax)) combined with a Degree Heating Weeks thermal-stress accumulator drives bleaching and mortality; outplanting adds juvenile colonies at the chosen yearly rate.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install