LHR Flightpaths

3D CGI visualisation of direct destinations from London Heathrow airport.

This shot uses a procedural data-driven approach. Data was compiled for London Heathrow and each destination airport, including airport code, name, city, latitude and longitude. This spreadsheet based data was imported using the Table Import SOP and used to pinpoint each destination on the globe. The main work lay in creating a for-loop network to get each ‘aircraft’ to reach it’s destination with a time delay sorted by it’s flight distance from London. You’ll notice the nearest destinations are reached and labelled first.

The whole system is fully art directable – and of course re-usable with new data.