WebGL Wind —Demo

A WebGL-powered visualization of wind power. Capable of rendering up to 1 million wind particles at 60fps.

This project is heavily inspired by the work of:

• Cameron Beccario and his wonderfulEarth project with itsopen-source version.
• Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenbergand their US Wind Map project.
• Chris Wellonsand his WebGL tutorials, in particularA GPU Approach to Particle Physics.
• Greggmanand hisWebGL Fundamentalsguide.

Running the demo locally

npm install
npm run build
npm start
#open http://127.0.0.1:1337/demo/

Downloading weather data

1. InstallecCodes(e.g.brew install eccodes).
2. Edit constants indata/download.shfor desired date, time and resolution.
3. Run./data/download.sh <dir>to generate wind data files (pngandjson) for use with the library.