Post by Jack MayPost by Tadej BrezinaPost by Jack MayThere was a story tonight on the ABC national news about an art student
that created some interesting video by plotting all 19000 flight paths
for flights in the US for 24 hours for one day. It was interesting.
http://users.design.ucla.edu/~akoblin/work/faa/index.html
That's interesting. But how does one produce a visualization like that?
The trajectories must be a huge amount of data. Using which programme?
I think he wrote his own visualization software. He did this as a
graduate school project.
There are some commercial graphing packages that can handle very large
data files but he did not indicate that he used any commercial packages.
I visited Houston TRACON and they had a similar piece of software running,
except it had a real-time feed from the ATC system and you could zoom in
anywhere in the FAA's airspace and get the particular details of any
individual plane. Of course, that very slick advanced system was stuck off
in a corner, unused except to wow visitors, while the actual folks handling
airplanes were stuck with '70s green screens...
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