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🌡️ Thermal Imaging for Non-Invasive Hive Inspection

Point a virtual infrared camera at a 3D beehive cutaway to see how cluster size, brood-nest heat, insulation and emissivity settings shape a thermal reading.

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A 3D beehive cutaway paired with a simulated infrared camera view, showing how a winter cluster's true size and heat compare with what a thermal reading actually reports on the outside of the box.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Cluster heat conducts outward through the hive wall before a camera ever sees it, so insulation, emissivity settings and whether brood is present all distort the apparent size and temperature of the true cluster underneath.

🎮 How to Use

Switch between visible and thermal view, then adjust outside temperature, colony strength, insulation and camera emissivity. Watch the true cluster sphere and the false-colour reading diverge — and read the warning when a setting is misleading.

💡 Did You Know?

A shiny metal roof has low emissivity, so at the wrong camera setting it mostly reflects the cold sky rather than radiating its own temperature — a classic false-cold misreading beekeepers learn to spot.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D beehive cutaway with a toggleable infrared camera view that lets you compare a true winter cluster against its false-colour thermal reading as you change outside temperature, colony strength, insulation and camera emissivity.

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