I ran across some amazing visualizations of Flight Patterns. They are the early work of a project called Celestial Mechanics which is “planetarium-based artwork installation that visualizes the statistics, data, and protocols of manmade aerial technologies.” The work was done by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne and they took FAA data and plotted it and then rendered it out using Adobe After Effects.

The work is truly amazing and a wonderful visual representation of amount of air traffic in this country. Watch the main feature, or any of the other visualizations. I love how you can see the east coast wake up and fly before the west coast comes to life a few frames later.

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