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3 unusual facts about simulation


KcsA potassium channel

An aspect of KcsA that has not been fully addressed by simulation studies is that the crystal structure appears to be that of the ‘closed' form of the channel.

Simulation

Examples of movies that use computer-generated imagery include Finding Nemo, 300 and Iron Man.

This event transformed the film industry; in 1995, the film Toy Story was the first film to use only computer-generated images and by the new millennium computer generated graphics were the leading choice for special effects in films.


2005 in machinima

its simulation game The Movies, the first game to contain dedicated tools for creating machinima.

Advanced Technology Leisure Application Simulator

The ATLAS is a product of Rediffusion Simulation in Sussex, England, now owned by Thales Group and known as Thales Training & Simulation.

Aeronor Flight 304

However, a team of Canal 8 UCV TV, who was shooting scenes of the simulation, managed to capture the Aeronor plane on fire shortly after falling to earth.

Articulatory synthesis

Birkholz P, Jackel D, Kröger BJ (2007) Simulation of losses due to turbulence in the time-varying vocal system.

Baffle Ball

The table was virtually recreated in pinball simulation video game, Microsoft Pinball Arcade.

Binary translation

HP ARIES (Automatic Re-translation and Integrated Environment Simulation) is a dynamic binary translation system that combines fast code interpretation with two phase dynamic translation to transparently and accurately execute HP 9000 HP-UX applications on HP-UX 11i for HP Integrity servers.

Brian Jacks Superstar Challenge

Brian Jacks Superstar Challenge is a 1985 sports simulation game released for various home computers by Martech, licensed by British sportsman, Brian Jacks.

CarSim

CarSim is produced and distributed by an American company, Mechanical Simulation Corporation, using technology that originated at The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Celeste McCollough

She worked on the role of colour in flight simulation displays for the Air Force Human Resources Lab at Williams Air Force Base, Arizona (e.g., Howard, 1992; Howard, 1994; Howard, 1996).

Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets

The Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR) is an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is part of the United States Department of Energy's Advanced Simulation and Computing Program.

CFL Football '99

CFL Football '99 was not a fast-paced, console-style title; rather, it was a simulation in the mold of Sierra's Front Page Sports Football franchise.

Chandler blueberry

The Chandler blueberry appears in the Lighthouse Cove area of FarmVille, a farming simulation social network game developed by Zynga.

ChemXSeer

ChemXSeer was conceived by Dr. Prasenjit Mitra, Dr. Lee Giles and Dr. Karl Mueller as a way to integrate the chemical scientific literature with experimental, analytical, and simulation data from different types of experimental systems.

CoDel

Simulation was also performed by Greg White and Joey Padden at CableLabs.

Dreadnought!

The novel begins with Lt. Piper (no first name), a native of Proxima Beta, taking the Kobayashi Maru simulation at Starfleet Academy.

Energy drift

Energy drift is often used as a measure of the quality of the simulation, and has been proposed as one quality metric to be routinely reported in a mass repository of molecular dynamics trajectory data analogous to the Protein Data Bank.

Francis H. Harlow

He is known for his fundamental contributions to the development of several CFD algorithms for computer simulation of fluid flows, including Particle-In-Cell (PIC), Fluid-In-Cell (FLIC), and Marker-and-Cell (MAC) methods.

Gwiazda

Henry Gwiazda (born 1952), composer who specializes in virtual audio (simulation of a 3D sound space)

Hardware description language

A hardware description language enables a precise, formal description of an electronic circuit that allows for the automated analysis, simulation, and simulated testing of an electronic circuit.

Holy Wars... The Punishment Due

The master recording is purchasable as part of the Rust in Peace album pack on the Rock Band band simulation platform, and is also playable in the Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock game.

IMTEK Mathematica Supplement

It is developed at the Chair for Microsystem Simulation at the Institut für Mikrosystemtechnik (IMTEK), Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany.

J. R. R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan

The massive-scale simulation takes part in the realm of Rohan and the player controls the forces of Good during the onslaught of the forces of Evil, namely centered on the conflict with Saruman of Isengard.

League Managers Association

The LMA added their name to a series of football management simulation games, LMA Manager series, for the PlayStation 2, and for 2007 the PC.

Lénárt sphere

Following Glen Van Brummelen (Reference 1 below, p. 129, stereographic projection), spherical trigonometry, though certainly no longer relevant to the older scientific needs of navigation, astronomy, geography, etc., other than as historical mathematics, has nevertheless seen a "rebirth" today due to simulation, game programming, Autodesk Maya, kinematics, physics engines, and many other new fields as diverse as optics, photography, art and medicine.

Leonard Boyarsky

After some freelance work for Interplay (Rags to Riches: The Financial Market Simulation and Castles II: Siege and Conquest) he was hired as art director, lead artist and designer/writer.

Lockheed Martin Global Training and Logistics

Lockheed Martin Global Training and Logistics (GTL) (formerly two separate entities combined into one business unit ('Simulation, Training & Support' & ISGS-Readiness and Stability Operations') is a Lockheed Martin business unit headquartered in Orlando, FL.

Master of Business Systems

Important application domains of Business Systems may be investigated in courses like enterprise resource planning, E-Commerce, SAP and e-business networking, industrial information systems, or electronic finance/electronic banking, web security, simulation models etc.

Michael Griebel

Griebel is currently director of the Institute for Numerical Simulation at the University of Bonn, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing in Sankt Augustin.

Military Professional Resources Inc.

L-3 specializes in Command, Control and Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C3ISR), government services, training and simulation, and aircraft modernization and maintenance, and has a broad base of electronic systems.

MIMIC

MIMIC, known in capitalized form only, is a former simulation computer language developed 1964 by H. E. Petersen, F. J. Sansom and L. M. Warshawsky of Systems Engineering Group within the Air Force Materiel Command at the Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, USA.

NASCAR Racing

Papyrus did produce a Daytona track only for use exclusively at a fan simulation game at the Daytona USA museum.

Oil Barons

Oil Barons is both a strategy and simulation-type, turn-based game, published by Epyx in 1983.

Omega Boost

However, it is still considered one of the best Macross style mecha simulation games produced and is thought of by many as a sleeper hit due to its poor marketing.

Piotr Parasiewicz

He is best known as a developer of the Mesohabitat Simulation Model, which provides computer simulation models of instream habitat for fish and mussels.

Red Bull X2010

On his first run, he shortened the simulated course record held by Formula 1 cars on GT5's simulation of the Suzuka Circuit by over 20 seconds, drawing out the theoretical potential of the X2010 machine.

Smooth Noodle Maps

The liner notes from the "Post Post-Modern Man" single revealed that circle is actually a computer simulation of the planet Jupiter.

Social simulation

Nigel Gilbert published with Klaus G. Troitzsch the first textbook on Social Simulation: Simulation for the Social Scientist (1999) and established its most relevant journal: the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.

Sofa

Simulation Open Framework Architecture, an Open Source framework primarily targeted at real-time physical simulation

Solar and heat pump systems – IEA SHC Task 44 / HPP Annex 38

Therefore, common boundary conditions have been defined and implemented on three different simulation platforms that are used within T44A38 (TRNSYS, Matlab-Simulink and IDA-ICE).

Starfleet Command

Star Trek: Starfleet Command, a 1999 space battle simulation game set in the Star Trek universe

Steam

IAPWS—an association that maintains international-standard correlations for the thermodynamic properties of steam, including IAPWS-IF97 (for use in industrial simulation and modelling) and IAPWS-95 (a general purpose and scientific correlation).

Suffolk, Virginia

Other large employers in the City of Suffolk include Unilever, Lipton Tea, Wal-Mart, Target, QVC, and two major modeling and simulation companies, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.

Sugarscape

John Conway's agent-based simulation "Game of Life" was enhanced and applied to Schelling's original idea by Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell in their book Growing Artificial Societies.

Tap out

UFC: Tapout, a series of fight simulation video games for the Xbox

Technical director

Typically, a TD is a mix of an artist and a programmer, responsible for the more technical aspects of film production, such as programming shaders, developing character rigs and animation setups, performing complex simulation tasks and setting up the pipeline how the data is passed from one stage in the film production to the next.

Training simulation

The first commercially available training simulation was in 1956, and was called The Top Management Decision Game, and was created by the American Management Association.

Viral phylodynamics

Because computing likelihoods for genealogical data under complex simulation models has proven difficult, an alternative statistical approach called Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) is becoming popular in fitting these simulation models to patterns of genetic variation, following successful application of this approach to bacterial diseases.

Virtual facility

The VF type of computer simulation allows detailed analysis and prototyping of air flow in the data center by making use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques.


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