It'll likely spare Gardenburger's and Boca Burger's sad, dry simulacrums of beef.
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Toying with the toggles on the screen, I watched a bouquet of flowers shift into multicolored, pixelated simulacrums.
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However, the results of some of the images taken into the Prisma app are nonetheless fascinating simulacrums of real art.
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Even in rehearsal, their duets are flushed and furious, their feverish kisses becoming plausible simulacrums of the ones you imagine dotting actual affairs.
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His simulacrums aren't just programs: they're autonomous simulated consciousnesses with all the sophistication and physical sensation of real humans — including confusion, pain, and fear.
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But there's a blush of menace to it all, too, an idea that our phones can create soulless simulacrums for these abstract objects, taking away from an actual experience.
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In a section of the exhibition entitled "Nature, Religion, and Identity," Flora Fong's bronze sculpture, "Pronóstico de la temporada" (2007), shows four palm trees — abstract, three-fronded simulacrums of palm trees, really — in various states of bluster.
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Jagged Little Pill, the album, isn't about characters performing simulacrums of humanity while being stuck in a bucolic modern hell: It's about characters loudly and angrily trying to fight through that malaise to something better and more authentic.
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And yet it openly takes place in a world where those films, or simulacrums of them, not only exist but have created a cottage industry where literally every superhero (and sometimes their butler) has their own movie — except the perpetually overlooked Teen Titans.
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But as our diligent Weekend Editor, Emanuel Maiberg, highlighted in his comprehensive ranking of the new icons, the latest roll out threatens to shake up everything we know about suggestive cartoon simulacrums: There are multiple new, vaguely-phallic contenders threatening to usurp the eggplant as the de facto penis emoji.
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The Latinised plural simulacra is interchangeable with the anglicised version simulacrums.
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With the dawn of these new technologies, warfare has expanded beyond the physical world onto the virtual world. People engage in combat online in simulacrums, the name of the mecha units in the game, or with viruses (unmanned robots).
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The three main archetypes are Hacker, Coder, and Operative. They are similar to the classes Mage, Crafter, and Fighter in other MMORPG's. These classes then each branch out into sub-classes, with Coder, for example being divided into Programmer (out of battle item and ability maker) and Code Shaper (creates simulacrums to fight with, similarities to a necromancer/summoner in other MMOG's). The game currently has a total of 21 end-game classes with an additional two stubs.
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The 22nd century is populated with artificial intelligence such as integrated computer systems and "andies" which range from obvious metal robots to highly sophisticated simulacrums, some of which are accurate enough to deceive an observer into thinking they are human. Each novel covers a specific case, all are Tek-related, but most include sub-plots which involve non-Tek issues and travel out of the GLA, occasionally to other countries or as far as orbiting satellites. A shadowy government agency known as OCO - the Office of Clandestine Operations - is a frequent antagonist in the novels, albeit usually keeping to the background and supporting the particular novel's villain.
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Lieral is a genius who created much of the fundamentals of Roland's magic today, and he manages a number of scholars and academics in wizardry to further the advancement of magic. Lieral's flesh body has been infused and permeated with magical energy and like Lucile, he has an ethereal body which made him immune to any form of physical attack. He can alter his physical appearance to assume any age, create simulacrums and projections of himself, and is well versed in various of forms of magic inscriptions and incantations, making him so formidable and powerful that Ferris's strength and movements are like child's play to him. Currently, he is a practitioner of ancient magic and true word magic.
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