Visualizing Human Systems
Recently, CNET featured a video on Aaron Koblin whose name I had never heard before a few viral videos hit. Aaron is an artist/designer/researcher focused on creating and visualizing human systems. Many of Aaron’s visualizations are just stunning as you can see in the image above. One of his most well-known works is the flight pattern simulation shown in the video below. I have also included some other popular videos regarding Aaron. Enjoy!
Flight Pattern Video
Sheep Video
Ten Thousand Cents
Radio Head - House of Cards
Check out the video on CNET by clicking on the image below.
To see Aaron’s portfolio, click here.
Most Commented Posts
August 4th, 2008 at 9:23 am
I’ve seen the flight patterns vid before. The others are pretty amazing too. Thanks for sharing!
August 4th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
You might want to see the original flight pattern video - http://stat-graphics.org/movies/air-traffic.html. It’s not as slick as Aaron’s work, but it is over 10 years older.
August 4th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Hadley, One word - WOW. I think that is equally impressive considering the create date. Yeah, it’s not as polished, but given it was created around the time the Internet was taking off, I am a little blown away. Think about where our systems and software were 14 years ago compared to today - a big difference.
Thanks for sharing the original video!
August 4th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Thanks - it’s easy to forget that there were people doing graphics research well before the establishment of the internet. It’s worth clicking around on http://stat-graphics.org/movies/ and viewing some of the other movies. http://stat-graphics.org/movies/prim9.html is another classic, showing off Tukey’s PRIM-9 application, which really was the first interactive graphics application (in 1976!), running on a multi-million dollar supercomputer at the Stanford linear accelerator.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
There is definitely going to be a follow up post on here. What else are you holding out on?
I feel like Al Capone’s vault was just opened and it actually had something in it.
The middle picture at PRIM-9 is priceless! The commentary on it is pretty funny too.
Thank you again for sharing and your contribution to the readers!
August 11th, 2008 at 8:22 am
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