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  2. Swarm intelligence - Wikipedia

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    The name "boid" corresponds to a shortened version of "bird-oid object", which refers to a bird-like object. [8] As with most artificial life simulations, Boids is an example of emergent behavior; that is, the complexity of Boids arises from the interaction of individual agents (the boids, in this case) adhering to a set of simple rules. The ...

  3. Glossary of bird terms - Wikipedia

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    Bird ringing is the term used in the UK and in some other parts of Europe, while the term bird banding is more often used in the U.S. and Australia. [49] bird strike The impact of a bird or birds with an airplane in flight. [50] body down The layer of small, fluffy down feathers that lie underneath the outer contour feathers on a bird's body. [51]

  4. List of media notable for being in development hell - Wikipedia

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    Ray Gunn: Since late 1995, director Brad Bird was developing an animated film for Turner Entertainment but the WarnerMedia merger happened and thus it got scrapped. [326] However, Bird announced that he wants to revive the project at Skydance Animation years later. [327] Red Sonja: A second Red Sonja film has been in development for some years.

  5. Kill Screen - Wikipedia

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    Kill Screen [1] is an online magazine founded in 2009 by Jamin Warren and Chris Dahlen and owned by Kill Screen Media, Inc. It focused on video games and culture, but also included articles based on entertainment.

  6. Codex on the Flight of Birds - Wikipedia

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    The first commentary on birds, for this codex, are made on the second page of the fourth folio. Leonardo describes how the tips of a bird's feathers are always the highest part of the bird, when its wings are lowered, and how the bones in the wing are the highest part of a bird when its wings are raised.

  7. Visual acuity - Wikipedia

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    In young humans, the average visual acuity of a healthy, emmetropic eye (or ametropic eye with correction) is approximately 6/5 to 6/4, so it is inaccurate to refer to 6/6 visual acuity as "perfect" vision. On the contrary, Tscherning writes, "We have found also that the best eyes have a visual acuity which approaches 2, and we can be almost ...

  8. List of extinct bird species since 1500 - Wikipedia

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    A few birds were recorded in 2004 following several decades of increasing rarity. There was also an unconfirmed sighting in Albania in 2007. A survey to find out whether this bird still exists is currently being undertaken by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (BirdLife in the UK).

  9. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    1.435 m – standard gauge of railway track used by about 60% of railways in the world = 4 ft 8 1 ⁄ 2 in; 2.5 m – distance from the floor to the ceiling in an average residential house [119] 2.7 m – length of the Starr Bumble Bee II, the smallest plane; 2.77–3.44 m – wavelength of the broadcast radio FM band 87–108 MHz