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Summit Wind

by @duranduran

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. The fun part: if your browser has WebGPU, the page solves that field live as a compute shader (about 35 ms on an Apple GPU) as you scrub the timeline, and draws the flow over a 3D terrain view. Browsers without WebGPU get a precomputed field. https://mattduran.dev/summitwind/ Ranges and uncertainty only, no go/no-go verdicts. That still requires your best judgement as a mountaineer. Next up is a free-play mode where you set the wind direction and speed yourself and watch the field re-solve.

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