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Re:Time lapse video of global air traffic over 24 hours by chomchom on Sunday September 28, 2008 @05:37PM (#317850)
That is amazing. I like how there is a visible correlation between the time of day and the flow of traffic.
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Re:Time lapse video of global air traffic over 24 hours by lbrandy on Monday September 29, 2008 @10:11AM (#318350)
Yes, it's especially obvious in the Europe <-> US traffic. It's mostly one way, depending on the time of day.
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Re:Time lapse video of global air traffic over 24 hours by d0mine on Sunday September 28, 2008 @05:34PM (#317848)
I don't know what is the value, but it certainly looks nice.

http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatterns/FPWeb_Final_3...

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Re:Time lapse video of global air traffic over 24 hours by dcurtis on Sunday September 28, 2008 @11:21PM (#318067)
You can see this live at FlightAware.com. You can watch specific airports, flights, aircraft, etc...

http://flightaware.com/live/

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Re:Time lapse video of global air traffic over 24 hours by boredguy8 on Sunday September 28, 2008 @10:27PM (#318032)
The video I really wanted to see was "this" on 9/11. I wonder if it looked similar to what happens if you 'interrupt' a stream of ants and the 'panic' sets in.
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Re:Time lapse video of global air traffic over 24 hours by river_styx on Sunday September 28, 2008 @05:20PM (#317836)
Bad title. Time lapse implies a series of photographs, whereas this is a visualization of flight path data. Still very cool.
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Re:Time lapse video of global air traffic over 24 hours by tlrobinson on Sunday September 28, 2008 @06:06PM (#317869)
Really cool. You can see waves of red-eye flights arriving just as the sun comes up.
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Re:Time lapse video of global air traffic over 24 hours by danw on Sunday September 28, 2008 @06:35PM (#317886)
Those interested should get hold of a copy of episode 1 of BBC's 'Britain from Above', it's a whole show visualizing everything from airtraffic to mobile phone usage.
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Re:Time lapse video of global air traffic over 24 hours by danw on Monday September 29, 2008 @12:20PM (#318470)
Show info at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00d23yx, preview clips at http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove/stories/visualisations... and a bittorrent copy is apparently available from MVGroup for those who don't have access to BBC iPlayer
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Re:Time lapse video of global air traffic over 24 hours by raheemm on Sunday September 28, 2008 @04:51PM (#317825)
That is super cool! Esp seeing the day move!
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Re:Time lapse video of global air traffic over 24 hours by mixmax on Sunday September 28, 2008 @06:44PM (#317892)
Edward Tufte would love it
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Re:Time lapse video of global air traffic over 24 hours by edw519 on Sunday September 28, 2008 @08:11PM (#317937) 

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     for(minute=0;minute<60;minute++){
        for(second=0;second<60;second++){
           ISay.innerHTML = "Edward Tufte loves it";
        }
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  }
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Re:Time lapse video of global air traffic over 24 hours by KiwiNige on Sunday September 28, 2008 @09:12PM (#317965)
reminds me of an ant farm....
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Re:Time lapse video of global air traffic over 24 hours by albertcardona on Sunday September 28, 2008 @09:36PM (#317986)
Interestingly, the pattern of busy areas correlate with the world cities from which my website get the most traffic. It's a website about science and programming.

The rest of the world (mostly Africa and some parts of central Asia and north-western South America) doesn't seem to use internet much, neither abundant flights, neither perhaps population that can access those (or population at all).

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