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Airborne Athletics

The AirCAT training machines are battery operated and simulate volleyball sets, passes, serves, and spikes.

Artificial imagination

The term artificial imagination is also used to describe a property of machines or programs: Among some of the traits that researchers hope to simulate using machines include creativity, vision, digital art, humor, satire, etc.

Audio signal processing

overdrive effects such as the use of a fuzz box can be used to produce distorted sounds, such as for imitating robotic voices or to simulate distorted radiotelephone traffic (e.g., the radio chatter between starfighter pilots in the science fiction film Star Wars).

Bathroom singing

Jon Anderson had tiles installed in the studio, to simulate the echo effect of one's vocals in a bathroom.

Caenby

Dummy plywood buildings, inflatable rubber aircraft or vehicles, and a ploughed faux runway were set up to simulate an active airfield and draw German bombers away from genuine target airfields.

Clitoroplasty

Dr Suporn Watanyusakul uses a modified technique that preserves some erectile tissue to simulate clitoral engorgement and a small amount of foreskin to act as a clitoral hood.

Eliza

ELIZA, 1966 computer program designed to simulate a therapist or psychoanalyst

EPAM

Originally designed by Herbert A. Simon and Edward Feigenbaum to simulate phenomena in verbal learning, it has been later adapted to account for data on the psychology of expertise and concept formation.

Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball

All the teams, statistics, and players are meant to simulate the 1995 Major League Baseball season.

Gibraltar 2

Plasticine modelling clay was accordingly applied on the physical model to simulate soft tissue.

Giles Martin

In 2009 Martin returned to the Beatles catalogue with The Beatles: Rock Band, a video game that allows players to simulate performing Beatles songs with plastic instruments.

GNU arch

To simulate the behavior of centralized revision control systems, the head developer could allow shell access (SSH) or write access (FTP, SFTP, WebDAV) to a server, allowing authorized users to commit to a central server.

H.A.A.R.P.

High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, an investigation project to understand, simulate and control ionospheric processes

Hashlife

Hashlife is a memoized algorithm for computing the long-term fate of a given starting configuration in Conway's Game of Life and related cellular automata, much more quickly than would be possible using alternative algorithms that simulate each time step of each cell of the automaton.

Hudson Soft HuC6280

White noise is used to simulate percussion instruments and effects, such as explosions, by means of a pseudo-random square wave.

HyTelnet

This is a typical HyTelnet screen running much as a user would have experienced it, rendered in non-proportional font to simulate a terminal.

It enhances the experience slightly with JavaScript, although it offers versions for older browsers and an "ultra-classic" view to best simulate the old interface.

I Ain't Been Shot Mum!

This initiative system is designed to simulate the "friction" of war noted by Carl von Clausewitz, plus units use a dice system for movement, observation, and fire that means you never know exactly how they will perform.

Interstate 285

Computer animations were developed prior to construction to simulate a jumbo jet touching down on the runway from a driver's perspective.

Jean-Pierre Houdin

The same year Houdin, the Egyptologist Bob Brier, Tayoubi and Breitner with a team of engineers of Dassault Systèmes decided to analyse the King’s Chamber cracks with software normally used by industrial corporations to simulate the behaviour of their products in operation and to detect any structural weaknesses in order to solve problems as early as the design phase (SIMULIA).

Jimmy White's 'Whirlwind' Snooker

Although the game was not the first to simulate snooker (or pool) in 3D, it made full use of the processing power and graphics capabilities of 16-bit home computers and was praised for its then ground-breaking realism and easy-to-use interface.

John Lennon Artificial Intelligence Project

The John Lennon Artificial Intelligence Project is a chatterbot designed to simulate a conversation with John Lennon.

José Ignacio Quintón

In this danza he was able to simulate the sound of the Coquí, which is a tiny frog found in Puerto Rico with a unique call, with the notes of the band's instruments.

Kinetic Monte Carlo

In March, 2006 the, probably, first commercial software using Kinetic Monte Carlo to simulate the diffusion and activation/deactivation of dopants in Silicon and Silicon-like materials is released by Synopsys, reported by Martin-Bragado et al. (Martin-Bragado 06).

Lubachevsky–Stillinger algorithm

The Time Warp parallel simulation algorithm by David Jefferson was advanced as a method to simulate asynchronous spacial interactions of fighting units in combat models on a parallel computer.

Milk and Cereal

The original video spawned several recreations, including one by two students from the University of California, one featuring the puppet Yoda from Star Wars, another by a single high school student named Riley Harmon, who "cloned" himself in post-production to simulate the duet, and one by former Formula One driver Scott Speed along with his friend and fellow race driver Colin Fleming.

Newsgame

This includes a number of subcategories that dive into different ways to incorporate gaming elements into journalistic work, whether they be long-form documentary news games (JFK Reloaded), games that simulate real-world systems (Sweatshop or Darfur is Dying), interactive infographics (Budget Hero), or quiz/puzzle-based games (Scoople).

Oneironautics

Simstim, a technology in William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy of science fiction novels, whereby a person's brain and nervous system is stimulated to simulate the full sensory experience of another person.

Peter Frenkel

He used a decompression chamber belonging to the state airline Interflug in training for the 1972 Olympics, so as to simulate the effects of altitude training.

Pinelands High School

In 2004, the school provided filming locations for the motion picture Ask the Dust, with the sets built to simulate Los Angeles in the 1930s.

Pneumoperitoneum

Subphrenic abscess, bowel interposed between diaphragm and liver (Chilaiditi syndrome), and linear atelectasis at the base of the lungs can simulate free air under the diaphragm on a chest X-ray.

Positron Lifetime Spectroscopy

Recently a program named SimPL has been produced at the University of Prince Edward Island, PEI, Canada, which attempts to simulate the positron interaction and model the output spectra.

Preesm

It is primarily employed to simulate signal processing applications and generate code for multi-core Digital Signal Processors.

Rainer Spurzem

With Sverre Aarseth, he was the first to simulate core collapse of a star cluster using a direct N-body algorithm on a Cray supercomputer.

Recurring dream

Threat simulation theory - This theory was proposed by Antti Revonsuo and states the biological function of dreaming is to simulate threatening events and then rehearse threat avoidance behaviors.

Simulated reality

This would undermine Nick Bostrom's simulation argument; we cannot be a simulate consciousness, if consciousness, as we know it, cannot be simulated.

T. R. Pugh Memorial Park

The architect for the park and the mill was Frank Carmean with artist Dionicio Rodriguez serving as sculptor of the concrete work to simulate wooden, iron and steel structures.

Token bucket

HTB allows using one single physical link to simulate multiple slower links and to send different kinds of traffic on different simulated links.

Valmet M76

The Valmet M76, M72 and M78 have been used as props to simulate the AK-47 and related Soviet weapons in a number of US films during the Cold War, most notably Red Dawn, Commando and Firefox, most likely due to their availability.

Wave machine

Wave pool, a machine that generates waves in a pool to simulate the ocean

Column wave, a theatrical device used to simulate the look of the ocean on stage


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