This system showcases the two-way interaction between Eye-Sys and a live simulation running in a separate application.

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Overview

The Global Supply Chain demonstration was based on work done by IDV under a U.S. Navy Phase II SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) contract. The "Cereal Problem" represents a common type of data analysis in the intelligence field. In this demonstration, the assembly and consumption of cereal acts as an unclassified analogy for real-world supply and demand scenarios.

IDV created a simulation based on this problem to demonstrate the ability of Eye-Sys to visualize complex data and interact with third party applications. This simulation is its own, separate application and is in no way part of Eye-Sys. The simulation is fictitious and is not intended to produce real data.

The simulation application uses the Eye-Sys COM interface to establish a two-way link, allowing the Eye-Sys user to perturb the live simulation by deactivating parts of the network while instantly viewing the simulation's response, providing an optimal environment for playing "what if" scenarios in real-time.

Notes

• The simulation updates nearly 1,000 streams of data at 50 ms intervals using COM, all received and rendered by Eye-Sys in real-time.
  
  
• Due to the complexity of the simulation, the '.esp' file used in the visualization ('.esp' files are Eye-Sys project files, used to define the visualization system) was created off-line by the simulation. The XML-based format of '.esp' files makes this easily achievable.
  
  
• Several custom scripts are embedded in the visualization system, accessible from the Eye-Sys scripts menu. They provide convenient interfaces for toggling between global and flat projection, helping with isolating select parts of the network, and pulling up extra data for select cities.
  
  
• A few cities have some extra information available, including complex (7,000+ node) social networks. Note that on commodity PC hardware, the social networks can be explored at 30 fps, even while nearly 1,000 streams of simulation data are being rendered in the 3D scene.