Visualization of Blue Forces Using Blobology
William Wright, Thomas Kapler · 2002
Several innovative visualization techniques have been developed during the DARPA CPOF program. This paper discusses one technique that became known as “blobology” and which is used to represent s lf-reporting friendly forces. Blobs evolved over time, in a collaboration with subject matter experts, and this evolution is shown. The experience gained, as these representations were iteratively developed and tested since the program began in 1999, is reviewed. A break-through came with a fundamental shift from a top-down representation of aggregations to a bottom up entity based representation of individual capability.