The yellow dots are aircraft. It is a 24 hour observation of all of the large aircraft flights in theworld, condensed down to about 2 minutes. You can tell it was summertime in the north by the sun's footprint over the planet. You could seethat it didn't quite set in the extreme north and it didn't quite rise inthe extreme south. Notice that as evening approaches, the traffic is predominantly from the USto Europe and when daylight comes, the traffic switches and itis predominantly from Europe to the US.
Six years in the making and completed in 2006, The Passenger was written, designed, modelled, textured, illuminated, animated, composed, recorded, mixed, edited, produced and directed by Chris Jones. More info at http://www.chrisj.com.au This is a low res, monophonic, compression drenched, generally fairly appalling version - for an idea of the DVD quality, download the hi-res trailer at http://www.chrisj.com.au/thepassenger/trailer.html