So, here is the final look of Wind Everywhere!
It is a visualization of the wind in the city you choose. You can change the city on the right bottom and feel the wind from there by looking how the objects on the canvas move.
Wind Everywhere from Ada Zhao on Vimeo.
Process
When you think of real time data and user input, you will definitely choose web as the living environment of your project. Thus, I started with this project using p5.js but I only got this:
I really hope that I can spend sometime figuring this out!
Tech Specification
I built a Node class to store the length and angle of a branch. A Tree class was built using Node class with recursion technic. Every frame, the program draws a tree recursively from the root node.
The ball and ballon come from the same class, Ball. Ball class makes object bumps back when it hits the ground or the building.
The textured flag is developed based on Dan’s example given in the class using Toxi physics library. The ballon string is built with the same Particle and Spring classes in the same physics world.
Wind data is from OpenWeather API and the text field is using the controlP5 library.
Reference
Textured flag by Daniel Shiffman
Future Development
Unevenly distributed wind force for each branch
3D wind force for ball, ballon and tree.
Code
Ada's Blog 