Designer Aaron Koblin turned a lot FAA data into art:
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 above link leads to some beautiful related desktop wallpapers.
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