In 2005, Aaron Koblin took all of the air traffic over United States data, as seen by the FAA, and visualized it in a beautiful animation. Aaron's work was originally developed as a series of experiments for the "Celestial Mechanics" project (eye candy!) by Scott HEsels and Gabriel Dunne at UCLA.
The video clip above tracks all flights over the United States over a few days in March 2005, which brings this question to my mind: "where are all those people going?" Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | Flight Patterns website
Koblin will lead a walk-through discussion of his featured work following an introductory talk by GAB cofounder Peter Hirshberg about the history of computer art.
Come check it out, it's going to be a great night, his work is amazing in person!
You can say that again! This was awesome to watch.
I wonder if it's possible one day to see a video of all the flights from around the World? It could end up replacing the awesome picture of the Earth at night with all the cities glowing. You know the one I'm talking about. ;)