The FAA visualised

chuck · #1 08-28-2006, 03:11 PM

I don't know if it's art - but it's defo creative - and in a way mesmerising and beautiful all at the same time.

http://users.design.ucla.edu/~akobli...faa/index.html

Reminds me of Wargames - ubercool 80's cold war flick for all you uneducated neo-geek types.

Kind of chilling in a sense in a post 9-11 world - recognising that planes have been used as missiles.

Release the politics and enjoy the data flow.

*_* · #2 08-29-2006, 03:25 AM

very cool. thx.

Scott Warner · #3 08-29-2006, 09:09 AM

Reminds me of my childhood: my father used to be an air traffic controller at LAX.

Chris M · #4 08-29-2006, 11:42 AM

really gorgeous

yep, that most definitely falls under the conceptual/contemporary category. very inspiring stuff, my sister's gallery is a huge advocate for digital art as well as traditional media in that style.

shameless plug

http://bank-art.com/toyworld/john/index.html

grady · #5 09-07-2006, 05:19 PM

Very cool. I've been sending this to quite a few friends recently.

change · #6 09-19-2006, 06:51 PM

Super sweet! I'm a bigger dork about aviation than I am about Underworld. Plus I'll be an air traffic controller in Chicago within a year (if the FAA ever gets their shit lined up... but that's a whole other story) and currently teach ATC at a major Aeronautical University. I'll be sure to pass this along to all my students and colleagues... if I can get the damn things to load on my University-issue craptop.

edit: Firefox worked. Yay.

chuck · #7 09-22-2006, 04:18 PM

More coolness here. Images only.

The low earth orbit image blows my mind, just a little, and the link about satellites, which gives details about all of the orbiting bodies we've stuck up there - is just amazing.

chuck · #8 09-24-2006, 02:06 PM

maybe I should have called this data visualised.

Same map - but with google traffic visualised over the course of 24 hours.

http://labs.google.com/papers/sawzall-20030814.gif

From Nat Torkington's blog.

I like how it almost beats like a heart - you can't see the earth revolving - but it's like the sun passing across the face - and the planet beating. Some places just burn 24/7 though.

Renze · #9 09-29-2006, 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chuck

Reminds me of Wargames - ubercool 80's cold war flick for all you uneducated neo-geek types.

You should check out DEFCON, a game inspired by that movie.

den · #10 10-05-2006, 10:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chuck

maybe I should have called this data visualised.

Same map - but with google traffic visualised over the course of 24 hours.

http://labs.google.com/papers/sawzall-20030814.gif

From Nat Torkington's blog.

I like how it almost beats like a heart - you can't see the earth revolving - but it's like the sun passing across the face - and the planet beating. Some places just burn 24/7 though.

That is a really cool image. The heart beating analogy is great.

change good luck with the air traffic controller in Chicago. I hope you're at Midway instead of O'hare.