Rainbow Ants

Ants that have left

Each ant that leaves shows up here in the colour it ended up.

Ready

Drops

First drop

Nearest Random

Ants head for the nearest drop first. Drag a drop to move it.

Ants25

They come in through the door at the bottom. More ants means bigger drops, so there's enough for all of them.

Fullness75%

How much each ant drinks before it leaves by the top door.

Drop hopping50%

Chance an ant moves on to another drop, chosen at random, part-way through. This mixes the colours.

Speed

½× 1× 2× 4×

Based on the coloured sugar water experiment (Smithsonian, video). The colours mix the way dyes do, so yellow and blue make green.