Hypnotic flight patterns

Artist Aaron Koblin has created this fantastic and hypnotic animation of flight patterns over the U.S. Try to look without becoming mesmerized!

From the artist's site:

"This work was originally developed as a series of experiments for the project "Celestial Mechanics" by colleagues Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne at UCLA. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya."

The piece has been displayed at the following Awards/Festivals:

• National Science Foundation 1st Pl. Science Visualization
• Japan Media Arts Festival
• Ars Electronica
• SIGGRAPH
• Golden Horse Taiwan
• iDat Singapore
• Media Art Fiesland
• Boston Cyber Arts
• TED
• MediaMatic
• Todays Art