{"id":74572,"date":"2022-10-15T21:43:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T01:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/?p=74572"},"modified":"2022-10-15T21:43:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T01:43:12","slug":"looking-outwards-07-information-visualization-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/2022\/10\/15\/looking-outwards-07-information-visualization-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Outwards 07:\u00a0Information Visualization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I chose to look at Flight Patterns by Aaron Koblin<\/a>. This visualization of the flight data over North America was interesting to me because of how non-geometric it is. The closer you zoom into the maps, the more mycelial the shape of the flight paths become. I think we commonly believe that planes move from point A to point B along a straight line, but as we look at this map, it’s clear that that image is incorrect. I think for me it’s the mycelial nature of these flight paths, having nexuses and crisscrossing to create this intricate web that I find really intriguing. Such nonlinear patterns replete with random elements always fascinate me. The algorithms seem fairly simple and easy to understand. A flight path is charted from its beginning to its end, its x and y coordinates (latitude and longitude) mapped out using point based lines. It’s just an interesting exploration of randomness to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\" — *Flight Patterns<\/em> (in color) by Aaron Koblin<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"*I chose to look at Flight Patterns by Aaron Koblin. This visualization of the flight data over North America was interesting to me because of how non-geometric it is. The closer you zoom into the maps, the more mycelial the shape of the flight paths become. I think we commonly believe that planes move from … Continue reading “Looking Outwards 07:\u00a0Information Visualization”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":725,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107,58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74580,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74572\/revisions\/74580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}