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🪐 Terraforming a Planet: 2D Climate Map

Interactive 2D map terraforming lab: energy balance, greenhouse effect, ice-albedo feedback, atmosphere and life.

Space & Astronomy2DAdvanced60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

Details

CategorySpace & Astronomy

RenderingCanvas 2D

DifficultyAdvanced

Target FPS60

ControlsSliders for orbit distance, orbital mirrors, dark dust on ice, super-greenhouse gas, factory output and time rate; presets for Mars, Venus, Earth, a Mars mirror push and Snowball Earth; click the map to drop a water comet, seed life or place and remove greenhouse factories; hover for local temperature and terrain.

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⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 2D map of a planet being terraformed: a grey-atmosphere energy balance with ice-albedo and water-vapour feedback, a polar CO2 reservoir and photosynthesis that turns CO2 into O2. Drop comets, seed life and build greenhouse-gas factories on the map and watch temperature, pressure and habitability evolve.

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