WINDWARD Surface Wind Field

Station δ · 10 m above ground Live field

Windward The shape of moving air, drawn one stroke at a time — a live surface-wind field streaming across the relief.

Every stroke is a parcel of air on the move. Length and glow read its speed; the field crowds and brightens where the flow squeezes through the passes. Point anywhere to sound the bearing and knots.

Length = speed Bright = gust Contour = terrain

Designed & built by Sapience Analytics — part of the Generative Assets collection.

Reading the field

01 / Strokes

Each stroke is a moving parcel

The field advects thousands of massless tracers through the wind vector at their feet, laying a fading trail behind each one. Fast air draws long, bright strokes; slack air leaves only a short scratch. Nothing is placed — the picture is the flow finding its own path.

02 / Passes

The gust lives at the gaps

Where terrain pinches the flow — a saddle between two ridges — the air must accelerate to conserve its mass. The strokes crowd and flare gold through every pass as gusts sweep across the range, then relax to a calm teal on the open ground below.

03 / Bearing

Sound the wind anywhere

The corner instrument reports the wind the way a station would — the compass bearing it blows from, in knots — sampled live at your cursor. Move across a ridge and watch the needle back and veer as the terrain bends the stream around it.