SummitWind
A mountaineering safety tool providing summit-level wind forecasts for 16 mountaineering objectives including Rainier, Whitney, Denali, Mont Blanc, and the Matterhorn. In browsers with WebGPU, it solves the wind field live as a compute shader (about 35 ms on an Apple GPU) as the timeline is scrubbed and draws the flow over a 3D terrain view; browsers without WebGPU get a precomputed field. Forecasts show ranges and uncertainty only, with no go/no-go verdicts. A planned free-play mode will let users set wind direction and speed themselves and watch the field re-solve.
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SummitWind
A mountaineering safety tool providing summit-level wind forecasts for 16 mountaineering objectives including Rainier, Whitney, Denali, Mont Blanc, and the Matterhorn. In browsers with WebGPU, it solves the wind field live as a compute shader (about 35 ms on an Apple GPU) as the timeline is scrubbed and draws the flow over a 3D terrain view; browsers without WebGPU get a precomputed field. Forecasts show ranges and uncertainty only, with no go/no-go verdicts. A planned free-play mode will let users set wind direction and speed themselves and watch the field re-solve.
Audience: Mountaineers; built by the author for themselves and their friends
Posted by @duranduran · Original comment ↗
“I've been working on a summit-level wind forecasts for 16 mountaineering objectives (Rainier, Whitney, Denali, Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, ...). It's mountaineering safety tool I've been making for my friends and I.”