The Wind Barbs path effect applied to a sample shape
Cartography

Wind Barbs

Populate a weather chart with synoptic staffs whose pennants and flags decode a speed in knots, laid over a flow field you scale.

FamilyCartography
Parameters4 adjustable
On canvas handlesno, adjust it in the panel
Destructiveno, the original path is kept
LicenceFree for commercial use

The 4 controls

Nothing here is baked in. Every value stays live on the object for as long as the file exists, so you can come back and retune it, reorder it against other effects, or take it off and get your original path back exactly as you drew it.

  1. Spacing6 to 400, default 40
  2. Speed0 to 200, default 45
  3. Flow scale1 to 400, default 50
  4. Seed0 to 9999, default 19

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