Blob

Blob may refer to:

In biology

• Blob (visual system), sections of the visual cortex where groups of color-sensitive neurons assemble
• Globster, an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shoreline of an ocean or other body of water
  • Chilean Blob, a 13-tonne mass of tissue discovered in 2003 on a beach in Chile, the partial remains of a dead sperm whale
  • The blob (Chukchi Sea algae), a large blob of algae first spotted in the Chukchi Sea
• Blobfish, deep sea fish

In computing

• Binary blob, in open source culture, a non-free object file loaded into the kernel
• Blob detection, in computer vision, visual modules that detect regions in the image
• Binary large object (BLOB), in computer database systems
• God object, or "The Blob", anti-pattern in object-oriented programming
• Metaballs, in computer graphics, organic-looking three-dimensional objects

In media

• Blob (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain, adversary of the X-Men
• The Blob, 1958 American science-fiction film depicting a giant, amoeba-like alien
  • Beware! The Blob, a 1972 sequel to the 1958 film
  • The Blob (1988 film), a remake of the 1958 film
• The Blobs, an animated television series

In games

• in computer-games ( strategy games in particularly ) players, often in guilds/alliances form something called a "Blob" - This is usually a gathering of a group of player's War Ships.
• de Blob, a 2008 video game for the Wii system
• The Blob (Clayfighter), a playable character in the Clayfighter video games
• A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, a video game by David Crane for the NES
• A Boy and His Blob, a 2009 video game for Wii based on the NES game
• Blob (video game), a 1993 platform-puzzle game for the Commodore Amiga personal computer
• Blob Wars, a series of open source cross-platform video games by Parallel Realities
• In the MMORPG "Perfect World" the blobs are low level monsters located outside Ancient Dragon City and Orchid Temple.

Other uses

• Blobbing, an outdoor activity where a participant sits on an inflated air bag, or blob, and is launched into the air and falls into a body of water
• Blob (unit) English unit of mass, the inch-equivalent of a slug
• Blobitecture, in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped, bulging form
• Lyman-alpha blob, a concentration of a gas emitting the Lyman-alpha emission line

• Newfoundland Blob, an unidentified mass (globster) that washed ashore near St
• Nantucket Blob, an unidentified mass (globster) that washed ashore on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, sometime during November 1996
• Bermuda Blob, the name given to three globsters that washed ashore on Bermuda from 1988 to 1997
• Hebrides Blob, an unidentified, 12 ft (3.7 m) long carcass that washed ashore on Benbecula beach in the Hebrides, Scotland, in 1990