Aaron Kobin

[sportyart]

Aaron Koblin received his MFA from the Department of Design|Media Arts at UCLA and his BA in Electronic Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Utilizing a background in the computer game industry, he led a course in game design for the web at UCLA and has been working with data driven projects as a designer, artist and researcher.

The following is one of his works. Tulsa has such a large aerospace industry I thought this piece of art would be appreciated by all. Warning, it is INCREADABLE!

The Flight Patterns visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya.

Flight Patterns (Is in quicktime and takes a few mins to load)


Aaron Koblin

[cannon_fodder]

I've seen this around a few other places, pretty dang cool.

[sgrizzle]

I like how you can see the US (mainly the eastern half) really well even if the land isn't there.