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Flight patterns is a data visualization of airplane traffic that captures the rhythms and spatial patterns across North America over a 24- hour period. This project was created by Aaron Koblin who used data from the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA), which tracks 140,000 planes a day. He then used processing to plot where each plane went and used after effects and Maya.
The various colors and patterns are coded to show a wide range fo data such as type of aircraft, alterations to routes, weather systems and no fly zones. Also, the airline hubs appear as bright points of diffusion inside a complex web. I found this project particularly intriguing because this project’s use of aggregated data is visually pleasing as well as represents a relationship between humans and technology.
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Flight paths from FAA data drawn algorithmically and colored based on airplane model