Multicultural Crew Food Garden (2D)

This 2D counterpart models the same fixed-budget, multi-crop resource-allocation problem as the 3D habitat-ring version, drawn as a grow-chamber grid instead of a rotating ring. Sixty square meters of tray space is split across wheat, soy, leafy greens, sweet potato and insect protein — each with its own growth rate, nutrition-per-area yield and crew cultural-preference weight — and the allocation is renormalized every frame so it always sums to exactly 60 m², no matter how the five sliders are set. Each crop grows independently along a logistic curve toward its own area-scaled capacity, and the live readouts track total nutritional output against a cultural-satisfaction score that is deliberately penalized whenever a culturally-important staple gets zero area, with a Pareto-style scatter chart showing where your current allocation sits against hundreds of sampled alternatives — including the nutrition-maximizing monoculture and the cultural-maximizing even split.