mapbox/webgl-wind

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1104 stars · 229 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A WebGL-powered library for visualizing wind data as GPU-accelerated particle animations, capable of rendering up to 1 million particles at 60fps. It includes tooling to download and convert ECMWF weather data (via ecCodes) into PNG/JSON wind data files.

Use cases

• visualize global wind patterns on a map
• render animated wind particle flows in the browser
• build a weather map like earth.nullschool.net
• display wind speed and direction from GRIB weather data
• create GPU-accelerated particle simulations for geospatial data

When to choose

• you need high-performance wind or flow-field visualization on web maps
• you want GPU-based particle rendering at 60fps
• you have GRIB weather data you want to visualize as animated particles

When to avoid

• you need a general-purpose mapping library rather than a specialized wind visualization
• your project requires non-WebGL environments or older browsers
• you need regularly updated weather data pipelines without custom scripting

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

data-visualization simulation graphics gpu-computing data-visualization graphics weather browser webgl particles wind gpu-accelerated map-visualization maps web-server javascript

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