Air flight pattern video art

[Jack May]

There 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.

For those interested, the Quicktime videos are at:
http://users.design.ucla.edu/~akoblin/work/faa/index.html

[Tadej Brezina]

Post by Jack May
There 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?

Tadej

[Jack May]

Post by Tadej Brezina

Post by Jack May
There 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.

[Michael G. Koerner]

Post by Jack May

Post by Tadej Brezina

Post by Jack May
There 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.

The FAA has that (or something just like that) running at their pavilion at
this year's annual EAA gathering in Oshkosh, WI this week. It shows all of
the individual aircraft that flew IFR in the contiguous 48 USA states over a
recent 24 hour period.

http://www.airventure.org

[Jack May]

Post by Michael G. Koerner

Post by Jack May

Post by Tadej Brezina

Post by Jack May
There 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.

The FAA has that (or something just like that) running at their pavilion
at this year's annual EAA gathering in Oshkosh, WI this week. It shows
all of the individual aircraft that flew IFR in the contiguous 48 USA
states over a recent 24 hour period.
http://www.airventure.org

I sent an e-mail to the San Francisco airport (SFO) suggesting that they use
the FAA and the art student display in their terminals like they use art
now. We will see what happens

[Stephen Sprunk]

Post by Jack May

Post by Tadej Brezina

Post by Jack May
There 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...

S