Show HN: Bumble Bee Flower Finder
bumblebeeflowerfinder.info
Hi HN, this is a project I did for a friend of mine[0] who is a scientist researching both plants and insects. He had collected a really amazing data set and wanted a set of tools for searching through the data and for designing gardens. Jarrod did most of the design and basic HTML and provided the data, I implemented the various search and sort algorithms and did the map generation. It was a lot of fun and I think the product is useful.
The "find" function allows you to specify various constraints and get a list of native plants that satisfy those constraints. Clicking on a plant gives you detailed information about that plant. The "plan" function uses the provided constraints to build a set of plants whose genera and bloom time are evenly distributed, and provides a randomly generated map that can be used as a planting guide. Clicking on a plant in "plan" mode removes that plant from the plan and selects a new one from the set of eligible alternatives. It also shows you which bumble bees your garden will potentially support. For more info just read the site, it is pretty information dense.