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Build **Apis Mechanica**: a interactive Three.js study of a mechanical honeybee. It's an articulated flying machine made of porcelain, enamel, precious metal and etched glass. It should feel like an exhibition piece: ethereal, calm, very precise, and beautiful in every frame. Somebody should be able to screen-record it at any moment and post the clip.
- Materials: `MeshPhysicalMaterial` throughout. Use clearcoat for porcelain and enamel, proper metalness/roughness for gold and brass, and `iridescence` plus thin-film for the wing membranes (a faint oil-slick sheen at grazing angles).
- Post-processing, kept minimal and tasteful: SMAA or FXAA, a very subtle selective bloom (only emissive parts glow, never the whole scene), and optionally a faint vignette. No chromatic aberration and no film grain overload.
- Hold a steady 60 fps on a modern laptop. Instance repeated parts (eye facets, setae, rivets, gear teeth), and cap the pixel ratio at 2.
- Responsive: it should look designed at 1920×1080
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## 2. The bee: anatomy, built with mechanical accuracy
Model it on real *Apis mellifera* anatomy and proportions, then translate each organ into a believable mechanism. Each part should look machined, cast, glazed or etched, with bevels, seams, rivets, screw heads, fine chamfers and panel lines. Avoid "blobs with gears glued on". Gears must have real teeth, mesh with each other, and turn in opposite directions at correct ratios.
Include at least these named components, each a separate selectable object with its own spec:
**Head**
- **Compound Eyes**: two domes made of hundreds of instanced hexagonal ommatidia lenses in a smoked glass bezel, with a faint internal glint.
- **Ocelli Triad**: three small jewel lenses on the crown (real bees have these; include them).
- **Antennae**: scape, pedicel, and a flagellum of 10 or more articulated segments on tiny ball joints, with elbowed geometry like a real bee.
- **Mandibles** and a folded **Proboscis** (glossa) that can extend.
- **Cranial Housing**.
**Thorax (the engine)**
- **Scutum & Scutellum**: the dorsal plates.
- **Resonant Flight Motor**: bees fly with *indirect* flight muscles. The thorax box deforms and the wings are driven through that deformation. Represent this as a sprung thoracic box with a visible leaf-spring or click mechanism, driven by a crank/escapement. In flight you should see the plates flex very subtly at wingbeat frequency.
- **Wing Hinge Assembly**: the axillary sclerites as a miniature gimbal and linkage that produces both stroke and pitch rotation.
- **Setae**: bees are fuzzy. Add tufts of fine gold or brass filaments (instanced thin cylinders or line segments) on the thorax collar and head, catching light like fur.
**Wings**
- **Forewings** and smaller **Hindwings** with a correct venation pattern, including the marginal cell and submarginal cells. Build the veins as fine tubes along curves; the membrane is thin etched glass.
- **Hamuli Coupling**: the row of tiny hooks that locks the hindwing to the forewing. The two wings on each side must flap as **one coupled aerofoil**. In exploded view, show the hamuli as a separate labelled strip.
**Legs**: six, each with coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia, tarsal segments and pretarsal claws, all on proper pin joints. The hind legs have a **Corbicula** (pollen basket), a concave plate framed by curved filaments.
**Abdomen**
- **Petiole**: the narrow waist joint.
- **Tergite Rings**: six overlapping, telescoping plates that visibly slide over each other when the abdomen "breathes" (a slow, subtle pumping).
- **Amber Core**: a glowing honey reactor visible through **honeycomb windows** (hexagonal cutouts) in the tergites. It gives a soft, warm, flickering emissive light, not neon.
- **Sting Assembly**: sheath and barbed lancets as a fine needle mechanism.