Friday, December 12, 2008

24 hours of flights

This video shows world air traffic over a period of 24 hours. The video is 72 seconds long so every 3 seconds represents 1 hour and every second represents 20 minutes. It looks like the video starts a 00:00 GMT.



Upon my first view of the video I focused mostly on the movement between Europe and North America which made me think of a swarm of bees feeding on nectar and pollen on one continent and then returning to their home on another. Interestingly you will notice that remapping the global surface to a rectangular image results in planes seemingly moving faster as they approach the Poles.

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