Flight Map
A representation of a 96-hour experience, capturing over 3000 planes in Brooklyn, NY.
You can make a wish if you catch 3 planes.
From where I grew up, supposedly there shouldn’t be that many planes in the sky, so there goes a saying - you can make a wish if you catch 3 planes.
/ Gather and clean the data
Using a FlightAware stick together with softwares Cocoa1090 and CocoaRTLServer, I gathered a bunch of datas of the planes flying over my house over 96 hours.
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/ Gather and clean the data
Using a FlightAware stick together with softwares Cocoa1090 and CocoaRTLServer, I gathered a bunch of datas of the planes flying over my house over 96 hours.
/ Visualization and sonification
There are both visual and audio elements. Audio is an important part of my experience of planes. Sometimes I only acknowledge a plane with its sound above me, so I thought to keep this quality.
It’s a chronological representation. A plane appeared at the exact time under the radar, and was detected for a duration. This part is indicated by the length of the color bar. And in this period, an amount of messages was detected, I use this to define the planes’ ‘loudness’, which was later used in the thickness of the bar and the amplitude of the sound. I also kept the ICAO identifier number for the planes, like little dots of trace.
There are both visual and audio elements. Audio is an important part of my experience of planes. Sometimes I only acknowledge a plane with its sound above me, so I thought to keep this quality.
It’s a chronological representation. A plane appeared at the exact time under the radar, and was detected for a duration. This part is indicated by the length of the color bar. And in this period, an amount of messages was detected, I use this to define the planes’ ‘loudness’, which was later used in the thickness of the bar and the amplitude of the sound. I also kept the ICAO identifier number for the planes, like little dots of trace.
Traffic during off-peak hours
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Traffic during peak hours
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Dec–2021