Flight Patterns ( Aaron Koblin, 2005)

The paths of air traffic over North America visualized in color and form. Awards, 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 This work was originally developed as a series of expirments for the project Celestial Mechanics by collegues 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. Dixi Zoo