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webgl wind

A free particle demo — play it in your browser, no install. Wind power visualization with WebGL particles

by @mapbox · mapbox/webgl-wind on GitHubLANG JavaScript★ 1,112HOSTED ON MAPBOX.GITHUB.IOUPDATED 6 Aug 2026

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

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.

Edit constants in data/download.sh for desired date, time and resolution. Run ./data/download.sh to generate wind data files (png and json) for use with the library.

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