Visualizing air traffic patterns
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Posted on: June 12, 2007 1:33 PM, by PZ Myers
One word: awesome.
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Edward Tufte would be proud.
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Posted by: Jaycubed | June 12, 2007 2:25 PM
So would Wilbur and Orville.
Posted by: O-dot-O | June 12, 2007 2:35 PM
wow
Posted by: chris rattis | June 12, 2007 3:38 PM
Here's a QT link.
http://users.design.ucla.edu/~akoblin/work/faa/Documentationl2.html
Posted by: JohnnieCanuck, FCD | June 12, 2007 3:58 PM
Anyone else see a cytoskeleton?
Maybe it's just me..
Posted by: protobiochemist | June 12, 2007 4:02 PM
It's not just you, that definitely reminded me of the time lapse photography so beloved by my former cell biology colleagues. Fantastic stuff. Anyone know how to make the clip into a screensaver?
Posted by: VancouverBrit | June 12, 2007 4:04 PM
Cytoskeleton was the first thing I thought.
Posted by: NC Paul | June 12, 2007 4:12 PM
Hey! There I am! On the flight to North Carolina! Can you see me?
Posted by: Crudely Wrott | June 13, 2007 12:37 AM
In a previous existance I was the engineer in charge of a Royal Australian Air Force radar installation, just at the moment when we were changing over from those round sweep screens that you see in the old war movies, to digital displays.
The funny thing was that those old screens used a phosphore that remained active for a very long time, so long that the "hits" were visible for around about 5 sweeps of the radar, though they obviously faded with time. This left a fading "track" on the screen which air defence controllers find very useful. The net result is that as these systems were replaced around the world, we were obliged to emulate this fading track in software, so that the controllors were kept happy. Aaron's first screens show this effect very nicely.
Posted by: demallien | June 13, 2007 12:57 AM
I should point out that this replacement happened only about 8 years ago for the RAAF. Ahead of the times they were not!
Posted by: demallien | June 13, 2007 12:58 AM
Its alive, its alive!!!
Posted by: Arnosium Upinarum | June 13, 2007 7:25 AM
Awesome indeed. Roads, rails, air travel; all examples of our extended phenotypes. All expressions of our genes gone wild. It's no surprise it looks alive. It is.
Posted by: HPLC_Sean | June 13, 2007 10:13 AM
That was just mind blowing. When you consider the scale of human achievement that represents it is just stunning. As Christopher Hitchens has taken to saying: More impressive than any burning bush.
Posted by: James | June 13, 2007 10:42 AM
All due respect to Bernoulli, the Wrights, and human achievement.
All those seemingly alive tracks represent tons and tons of CO2 - calculated at one pound of CO2 per passenger mile on domestic filghts. Two pounds per/pm on international flights.
Some folks fly. Other folks die.
Posted by: gerald spezio | June 13, 2007 12:24 PM