Abstract: A method for generating smooth transitions between animated image frames includes providing a client device; identifying a viewable area bounding box on the client device; calculating a zoom level for the weather data; determining a frame tile associated with a time frame to render the viewable area; requesting and receiving weather frame data for the frame tiles; loading the weather frame data into a shader; generating a texture to store a weather data value associated with a selected color; loading the GRIB data into map tiles objects; determining a position in a temporal range of animation positions from a beginning frame to an end frame; updating the objects with the position; using bicubic interpolation to produce a GRIB value associated with the position; assigning an output color by comparing the GRIB value against the texture; rendering an animated sequence of the frames; and repeating.

Abstract: A method of generating map images in a computing device includes loading source map data or vector data onto a host; loading an output tile system; determining which output tiles to process by cross-referencing the source map data or the vector data with the output tile system; loading source maps or vector data to a graphics processing unit memory; executing a graphics processing unit kernel to process data and return a map tile to the host; writing the map tile to a file on a database; determining if all tiles have been processed; and generating output map tiles. A map tile generation system includes computing devices; servers connected via a network; non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing instructions and machine-learning graphics processor units coupled to the servers via a kernel interface program.

Abstract: A method of generating map images in a computing device includes loading source map data or vector data onto a host; loading an output tile system; determining which output tiles to process by cross-referencing the source map data or the vector data with the output tile system; loading source maps or vector data to a graphics processing unit memory; executing a graphics processing unit kernel to process data and return a map tile to the host; writing the map tile to a file on a database; determining if all tiles have been processed; and generating output map tiles. A map tile generation system includes computing devices; servers connected via a network; non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing instructions and machine-learning graphics processor units coupled to the servers via a kernel interface program.