• on a woman, Chell, forced to undergo a series of tests within the Aperture Science Enrichment Center by a malicious artificial intelligence, GLaDOS, that...
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    In optics, the aperture of an optical system (including a system consisted of a single lens) is a hole or an opening that primarily limits light propagated...
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  • by teleporting the player's character and simple objects using "the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device", also referred to as the "portal gun", a device...
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  • Look up aperture in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The aperture of an optical system is the opening that limits the amount of light that can pass through...
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  • grunts. Aperture Science Personality Constructs, also known as Personality spheres or Personality Cores, are sentient robots created by Aperture that possess...
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  • Portal 2 (category Science fiction video games)
    single-player campaign, players control Chell, who navigates the dilapidated Aperture Science Enrichment Center during its reconstruction by the supercomputer GLaDOS...
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  • of Aperture Science. In the early days, the company was named Aperture Fixtures and made shower curtains for the military. It later became Aperture Science...
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  • player is guided by a personality core Nigel to complete puzzles in the Aperture Science Enrichment Center. The game also features new characters, voice acting...
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  • known about Chell but some posit she is the daughter of an employee at Aperture Science Laboratories, the main setting of the games. Chell's face- and body-model...
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  • version in June 2022. The game, set in the desolate, labyrinthine Aperture Science facility, challenges the player to navigate test chambers created by...
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  • as she attempts to gain control of a device that will restore the Aperture Science test chambers to full condition. The player traverses the puzzle chambers...
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  • Portal Stories: Mel (category Science fiction video games)
    when Aperture Science is still a fledgling company, Mel, a German olympian who has been recruited as a test subject, arrives by tram at the Aperture Science...
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  • superintelligent computer system responsible for testing and maintenance in the Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center in all titles. While GLaDOS initially...
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  • within the pocket universe that is the hub area, itself within the Aperture Science lab. Compared to the Angry Birds series of games, this minigame uses...
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  • restrain GLaDOS, the main artificial intelligence that operates the Aperture Science facility, from becoming rampant, though Wheatley is later revealed...
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    F-number (redirect from Relative aperture)
    relative aperture, because it is the inverse of the relative aperture, defined as the aperture diameter divided by focal length. The relative aperture indicates...
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  • Arctic and boarded the Borealis, an experimental vessel created by Aperture Science. After Laidlaw posted the story, fans launched several projects attempting...
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    theoretical physicist protagonist, Gordon Freeman, and a competitor of Aperture Science. While the facility ostensibly conducts military-industrial research...
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    White Knight. In April 2011, he appeared in Portal 2 as the voice of Aperture Science founder Cave Johnson, a performance that was lauded as the "surprise...
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  • has been misled and placed in life-threatening situations within the Aperture Science Enrichment Center by GLaDOS, eventually defeated her. However, the...
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  • a single level of the original Portal, Test Chamber 17, as one of Aperture Science's ubiquitous Weighted Storage Cubes with heart symbols printed on the...
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  • complete each puzzle in the Aperture Science Enrichment Center. The player must solve puzzles using "the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device", a device...
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    Aperture Science corporation within the Steam interface. Other tasks and clues led to passwords that could be used to log into these Aperture Science...
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    antagonist/anti-hero GLaDOS is cast into the deepest levels of the Aperture Science facility and is pecked by a bird. The game BioShock's 12th level is...
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  • assumes control of a test subject who has to complete puzzles inside the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and destroy a "rogue test subject". The development...
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    The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST; Chinese: 五百米口径球面射电望远镜), nicknamed Tianyan (天眼, lit. "Sky's/Heaven's Eye"), is a radio telescope...
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    Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) is a form of radar that is used to create two-dimensional images or three-dimensional reconstructions of objects, such as...
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    the phrase written multiple times by the last surviving scientist of Aperture Science neurotoxin incident, Doug Rattman. It is in reference to the fact that...
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  • Entropy: Zero 2 (category Science fiction video games)
    zombies; he also learns that Arbeit is connected to Aperture Science and a "project" that Arbeit and Aperture were involved in, which is now being sought after...
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  • Village. The prank involved making The Cube sculpture look like the Aperture Science Weighted Companion Cube from the video game Portal. Caltech pranks...
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