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a b c d Kozlowski, Lori (January 2, 2010). "Inventing the plants of "Avatar"". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved January 3, 2010. Pandora is located in the Alpha Centuria-system, 4.37-lights from Sol. Because of this it maintains close relations with the Human homeworld.

Staff (January 4, 2010). "Avatar fans promised alien sex scene on DVD". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved January 7, 2010. Hallowed Ground · Lost Cathedral · Willow Island · Willow Tomb · Willow Tree ( FEBA · Torukä Na'rìng) · Willowglade ( Cavern of Songs)The supersampling factor can be set to any integer ≥1, where a factor of one corresponds to no supersampling, and a factor of five to seven is a sensible upper limit beyond which additional accuracy gains become marginal. The supersampling factor has a near-linear influence on the model calculation time. 3 Results 3.1 Pandora software Because of its high axial tilt (29°), Pandora exhibits considerable annual variation in the day-to-night ratio. In addition, its elliptical orbit produces seasonal temperature variations and a range in daytime illumination of about ten percent.

Orbit geometry of the planet-moon barycenter ( M b) on its eccentric circumstellar orbit as used in Pandora. The situation depicted in this illustration corresponds to the midtransit time, when the true anomaly coincides with the orientation of the periastron ( ω b). Nothing is to scale in this illustration. The bottom part of the ellipse has been spared for illustration purposes. The turtapede ( Mawup in Na'vi) is a Pandoran creature that resembles a cross between a turtle, a platypus and a starfish. With its large dorsal fin and long tail, the turtapede is agile underwater. When emerging from the water, mesmerizing colors start to shimmer in the translucent area on its shell. They first appear in the musical Toruk – The First Flight.Ngim-a Kilvan: The Na'vi city was the first built by the Na'vi on a portion of the Hallelujah Mountains that drifts over the southern coast. In English its name is Long River, given the unobtanium shard floats over the Or'ant river basin. Ngim-a Kilvan is also home to a sizable population of Eloran, Tarlac and Orions. The Gill Mantle ("Txampaysye" in Na'vi) is a large jellyfish like creature native to Pandora's reefs. The Na'vi can bond with them in the water, which can supply them with oxygen through the water allowing Na'vi to remain underwater much longer. They are primarily used by Kiri throughout Avatar: The Way of Water.

The Tulkun is a whale-like creature native to Pandora's ocean. They are similar to Earth's whales and possess a form of sentience with their own language, laws, and philosophy which makes them capable of bonding with Na'vi in a more spiritual way than other animals. Each member of the Metkayina Clan forms a life-long bond with a tulkun as a spirit brother/sister. Once violent creatures who continually warred with one another, they are now completely pacifistic, refusing to kill even to defend themselves. As such they banish those who commit violence. They are introduced in Avatar: The Way of Water, in which humans have begun hunting them to harvest their brain enzymes for creating anti-aging remedies called amrita. Jake Sully's son, Lo'ak, bonds with an outcast tulkun named Payakan after he is banished for killing the whalers who killed his mother. For computational speed optimization of Pandora, it has proven crucial to break the code down into modules that can be bench-marked separately. It is often hard to estimate whether a change to the code makes it slower or faster, but speed can – and in our opinion should – be measured. C.1 Technical implementation Planet 7 – Utopian Disturbance. Cloven animals wandering around a bit and eating grass, maybe the most boring of the planets.

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Photodynamical modeling, on the other hand, is computationally extremely costly as it consists of up to 19 free parameters for inclined, eccentric orbits. Kipping et al. (2013) report 49.7 yr of CPU time for a single system using a similar computing infrastructure and multimodal nested sampling regression. Kipping et al. (2015) report a mean value of 33 000 h of CPU time per planet-moon system on an unquantified number of AMD Opteron 6272 and 6282 SE processors. These times were recorded in a search for transiting exoplanets with exomoons in a sample of 41 light curves from quarters Q0–Q17 of the Kepler mission using the MultiNest fitting software ( Feroz et al. 2009). According to Entertainment Weekly, "The Na'vi can commune with animals on their planet by literally plugging their braid into the creatures' nerve systems. To become a warrior, a Na'vi must tame and ride a flying creature known as Ikran." [2] The Na'vi also use this neural bonding system, called "tsaheylu", to mate with a "life partner", a bond that, when made, cannot be broken in the Na'vi's lifetime. This is akin to human marriage. [5] The terrain on Pandora differs somewhat from place to place, as do the Na'vi clans that inhabit them. The humans have settled in the forest region which is home to the Omatikaya clan. There are different ecosystems within each region, and many species such as the mountain banshee are present over a much wider range of biomes than their name would suggest. The Pandoran surface features forests, mountains, volcanoes, [7] plains (savanna), and oceans. A desert also exists in Anurai mythology. [8] The following year the United Earth Parliament voted to end the Exodus Fleets for an indefinite period, shifting funds for expanding infrastructure in Sol, Sirius and Taurus, re-purposing the Europa and Utopia Plantia Shipyards for trade ship construction and expansion of the United Earth Starfleet, to act as an exploration and military agency for Earth's expanding empire. Before its completion alone the Exodus Project launched over 250,000,000 colonists to what is now being referred to as a the Outer Solar Colonies, which unlike Pandora, largely remained loyal to Earth. Wilhelm, Maria; Mathison, Dirk (2009). James Cameron's Avatar: The Movie Scrapbook. HarperFestival. ISBN 978-0061801242.

A full list of model parameters is available in the online documentation. D.0.2 Creating a light curve Richard, Michael G (February 16, 2010). "Y'Know the Flying Dragons in Avatar? Tiny Real-Life Version Discovered in Indonesia". Treehugger.com . Retrieved February 17, 2010. As shown in Fig. 1, the true anomaly at ingress of the barycenter is (c b - y), with y = arctan(R s/r). During egress, the true anomaly is (c b + y). As a consequence, the velocity component that is tangential to our line of sight during ingress and egress is Germain, David (December 21, 2009). " 'Avatar' creator Cameron shares alien shop talk". Associated Press via Google News . Retrieved December 27, 2009.

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An Anvil character triumphs by shooting the rapids, by caroming from one obstacle to another, adapting and overcoming as he goes. In many ways, his characters are science-fiction descendants of Odysseus, the scheming fast thinker who dazzles his opponents with his footwork. Of course, sometimes it's a little difficult to tell whether they're dazzling an opponent with their footwork, or skittering across a floor covered in ball bearings. But Anvil has the technique and the skill to bring them out triumphant in the end, and watching them dance is such a delightful pleasure. [3] Wilhelm, Maria; Mathison, Dirk (2009). Avatar: A Confidential Report on the Biological and Social History of Pandora. It Books. ISBN 978-0061896750. Like on Earth, the forests of Pandora contain a wide diversity of flora and fauna. These are all part of the giant neural network that covers Pandora. There are different ecosystems within each region, but frequently the wild life, such as the banshee, is the same. Pandora also supports supersampling for realistic modeling of simulated observations. The output formats include light curves of the moon and the planet, as well as the combined transit model and simulated observations with arbitrary white noise amplitudes. Pandora also comes with a video animation generator that is suitable for testing and debugging, but also for education and outreach.