Smoother animations?
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Dear Windy team, I am a huge fan of the app and love how you are becoming the best weather app in the world.
I wonder if it is possible to make animations smoother? Instead of updating every ~.5 seconds for each 3h time frame, would it be possible to insert more frames in between (perhaps, through a linear interpolation) so that the animation showed up as a very smooth video with many frames per second?
I believe that would positively impact user experience, and potentially increase user engagement and ultimately donation to the app.
All the best!
Diego
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I'm not sure that interpolating computed forecast values would be a good idea, as generally weather evolution is never linear. Such an artificial interpolation would get of course a more "beautiful" animation on screen, but I don't think Windy would assume the wrong interpolated values...
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I agree that weather evolution is not linear, but it would be an approximation that would improve user experience a lot. Those are not "wrong" interpolated values, they could create a new forecast that involves GFS datapoints (for example) to produce a nice and smooth animation.
Perhaps an idea they could implement in the premium version!
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In meteorology, saying that T15h30m = (T15h+T16h)/2 is what I call a bad forecast.
This is only true mathematically speaking, nothing to do with natural weather evolution; such an interpolation cannot "create a new forecast".
