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For this weeks looking outwards I chose to look at Aaron Koblin’s flight patterns. Together with colleges from UCLA, Koblin developed a Processing program to analyze and visualize flight patterns over North America. Koblin does’t elaborate on the mechanics of his algorithm, but from the images he has up on his website it looks like he made color and thickness a function of flight frequency, which makes the final product look like a colored pencil-like piece, with webbed spots around airports. This obviously makes for a really effective depiction of the flight patterns in question as it makes really clear where and from large chunks of flights go, but it’s also really visually appealing as a work of pure art.

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