3D Visualisation of World Flight Paths

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Robin Edwards, a student on our MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation here at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, has used Processing to create a visualisation using data from OpenFlights.org. The clip below visualises approx 50,000 active flight-paths,interpolating motion along great circle paths for dynamic effect:

Robin notes that it does not account for multiple airlines or scheduled flights, but the path data still seems a reasonable proxy for flight visualisation.

For more head over to http://geotheory.org/ 

We like it so much it is slide one in our lecture on Geography in a Web 3.0 World at the Research Methods Festival 2012 at Oxford University next week...

Visualising World Flight-Paths in 3D

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Robin of geotheory.org and a student on our MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation course here at CASA, University College London has created an interesting movie looking at data from openflights.org.


Created in Processing the clip visualises 50,000 active flight-paths: 




Take a look at http://geotheory.org/ for more examples...