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 wonderful Earth project with its open-source version.
• Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg and their US Wind Map project.
• Chris Wellons and his WebGL tutorials, in particular A GPU Approach to Particle Physics.
• Greggman and his WebGL Fundamentals guide.

Running the demo locally

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

Downloading weather data

1. Signup for an API key at Planet OS (free plan)
2. Run:
   • npm install
   • cd data
   • node prepare.js <your API key> (wait for data to get downloaded)
3. Move pre-rendered PNG and JSON files into the demo folder – mv *.json *.png ../demo