Flight Patterns by Aaron Koblin

Posted by Alex in Car & Vehicle, Video Clips on May 14, 2008 at 8:37 pm


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


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8 comments to "Flight Patterns by Aaron Koblin"

  1. Sheldon
    May 14th, 2008 at 10:41 pm

    That was chock full of pure awesome.

  2. Julie
    May 14th, 2008 at 10:41 pm

    Aaron's work will be on display May 30, 2008, at the Gray Area Beacon - 1515 Folsom Street in San Francisco. Doors are at 6pm for the walk through with Aaron.
    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!

  3. Ali S.
    May 15th, 2008 at 2:31 am

    @ Sheldon

    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. ;)

  4. jamie
    May 15th, 2008 at 10:43 am

    Wow - thirded, Shelton. I love how the US shape is so recognizable by the flight patterns. Its a wonder you can even see the sky between Atlanta and Florida with the air congestion.

  5. Christophe
    May 15th, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    Amazing. Everybody's going to Florida.

  6. Jarrett
    May 15th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

    I actually helped on the Celestial Mechanics project and a small FYI I thought was cool is that if you look at the flight paths, there's a blank triangle where no planes fly over what would be Area 51.

  7. CheeseDuck
    May 15th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

    Crazy awesome.

  8. Idil
    May 15th, 2008 at 7:41 pm

    This would make a really cool screensaver


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