Flight Patterns

Flight Patterns was originally developed as a series of experiments for the project “Celestial Mechanics” by colleagues Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne at UCLA. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya. - Aaron Koblin

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National Science Foundation 1st Pl. Science Visualization

Japan Media Arts Festival

Ars Electronica

SIGGRAPH

Coachella

Golden Horse Taiwan

iDat Singapore

Media Art Fiesland

Boston Cyber Arts

TED

MediaMatic

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