We've all seen the hub and spoke flight pattern that most airlines publish in the back of their complimentary magazines.




Well this takes it to a whole other level, with the contrails being emulated in a beautiful mishmash of greatly intersecting flight networks.


Watch the whole thing, it actually gets better as the day it documents continues and the visualization progresses:

http://users.design.ucla.edu/~akoblin/work/faa/Documentationl2.html

It was done by Aaron Koblin at UCLA.

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