The soldiers thing is probably too complicated (apart from sounding silly) as every soldier would have to be individually animated. The alternatives (leaves, clouds etc.) are simpler.
The picture doesn’t have to be very vivid. I couldn’t really keep track of the objects (leaves in my case) for very long as they moved through my visual field. I saw them clearly entering the right side of my visual field but they quickly became fuzzy and were often forgotten before reaching the other side. I also didn’t even try to put words on them. I think that a single-colored background with different-colored fuzzy blobs as tokens would work as well.
If that’s still too hard then externalizing the visualisation could work too. An ideal would be a program that would display objects moving across the screen and you could add new ones by clicking or pressing a key.
Typing seems too slow (even if you are a fast typist).
The soldiers thing is probably too complicated (apart from sounding silly) as every soldier would have to be individually animated. The alternatives (leaves, clouds etc.) are simpler.
The picture doesn’t have to be very vivid. I couldn’t really keep track of the objects (leaves in my case) for very long as they moved through my visual field. I saw them clearly entering the right side of my visual field but they quickly became fuzzy and were often forgotten before reaching the other side. I also didn’t even try to put words on them. I think that a single-colored background with different-colored fuzzy blobs as tokens would work as well.
If that’s still too hard then externalizing the visualisation could work too. An ideal would be a program that would display objects moving across the screen and you could add new ones by clicking or pressing a key.
Typing seems too slow (even if you are a fast typist).