APOD 4.5

http://users.design.ucla.edu/~akoblin/work/faa/FinalA.mov


Click that to see a movie of all the flights leaving and entering and flying over the USA over the period of a few days in March of 2005. The movie was put together by a complex algorithm by a computer. It's extremely interesting to watch, especially as you watch the clock in the lower right-hand corner and see how the number of flights diminishes by over ten thousand as the hour of the day goes into the wee hours, suggesting that the flights really are scheduled so as to be semi convenient to travelers. Lance pointed out to me that they try to schedule the international flights from like England to leave at the same time, and you can see how that could be true as all of a sudden towards the middle of the movie a bunch of flights seem to leave simultaneously from the area of Europe. It's cool how the major cities are these incredibly bright spots that never really diminish despite the hour of the day. Very cool. Gooo Aaron Koblin.