Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

Mario Feese created this surprisingly lovely image, Air Lines, out of global flightpath statistics. He writes:

Every scheduled airliner route has been extracted from booking and airline systems. Every single route is represented by a small line, so the transatlantic racetrack is a sea of lines, whereas African or local Cessna routes are only a subtle hint.

It took several months to gather information and program the software algorithm that interprets inputs like LHRDXBSIN3242AD into vector files.

He’s selling prints for US$38.