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Beautiful Representation: The United States of Airplane Traffic

By Rain Noe - March 4, 2009

in Object Culture

Artist, designer and researcher Aaron Koblin "creates software and architectures to transform social and infrastructural data into artwork." Above are screenshots of his latest project, done in conjunction with FlightView and Wired:

...Koblin used images from his piece, Flight Patterns, to create a Google map representing air traffic across the United States over a 24-hour period. The map displays the flight paths for more than 205,000 aircraft....

Using data provided by FlightView, a service that provides real-time air-travel information, Koblin layers flight patterns by altitude, aircraft model and manufacturer.

Click here to check it out.

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Tom Lawton

15 years ago

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Beautiful images - hidden ugliness - think of the environmental consequence of all these flights.
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