Aaron Koblin, an artist whose focus is to visualize human systems, has made some glorious animations of air traffic flight patterns over the continental United States.
Aaron Koblin states that:
Data from the U.S. Federal aviation administration processed to create animations of flight traffic patterns and density.
In addition to illustrations, you can watch an animation on his web site.
I highly recommend it as it is fascinating to watch how the flights in the air change throughout the day. You can see the red-eye flights leaving California around midnight and when they arrive in the early morning on the east coast, air traffic erupts in a fury of activity. It really is fascinating!
Aaron Koblin's Flight Path Illustration
Enjoy!
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
Posted under Visionaries, animation, visualization
This post was written by drknuth on March 6, 2009
