Flight Patterns

United States of America, 2005

Artwork
A black image in the rough shape of the united state that's filled in by streaks of multicolored light that represent the path of flights
Image via aaronkoblin.com

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

Awards and festivals

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

Todays Art

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Credits

Production places
United States of America
Production dates
2005

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View at www.aaronkoblin.com

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

xos-118131

Materials

Data-visualisation

Collected

296 times

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