In the Command & Conquer real-time strategy games, both the gameplay and storyline revolve heavily around the introduction to Earth of an extraterrestrial mutagen called Tiberium via meteor, which displays strikingly lifelike behaviours such as self-replication, evolution, and homeostasis, without undergoing anything like common carbon-based metabolic cycles, and which appears to be colonising the Earth, converting it into an environment unsuited to carbon-based biology.

The simulated environment can be similar to the real world in order to create a lifelike experience — for example, in simulations for pilot or combat training — or it can differ significantly from reality, such as in VR games.

It generally references life or consensus reality, in contrast to an environment seen as fiction or fantasy, such as virtual reality, lifelike experience, dreams, novels, or movies.

The University offers a variety of resources and facilities to its students, including computing laboratories, a spa ( Buxton ), two computer games development suites, a lifelike hospital teaching environment with robot patients, a well-stocked Learning Resource Centre ( opened in 1997 ) at the Kedleston Road site, a restaurant run by culinary students, a university bus system, conference and / or colloquium settings, multi-functional lecture theatres, art and culture venues, concert venues, recording studios, sport centres, sport halls, fitness suites, outdoor pitches, student union bars and cafes, meditation / prayer rooms, natural / park environments, and frequent exhibitions by local, national and international organisations, businesses and product vendors.

For example, the PlayStation 2 demos Namco Girl ( a lifelike female character from Ridge Racer winking flirtatiously at viewers ) and old man used all the processing power to produce a high-quality single character model, in a static environment.

And a gray-haired man whose glance -- direct, lifelike, and mildly accusing -- was contradicted by the gilt and black frame.

In an embroidered extension of the myth, the hounds were so upset with their master's death, that Chiron made a statue so lifelike that the hounds thought it was Actaeon.

: I was transfixed by the dioramas — lifelike representations of animals and their habitats all over the world.

Athenian citizens were familiar with rhetoric in the assembly and law courts, and some scholars believe that Euripides was more interested in his characters as speakers with cases to argue than as characters with lifelike personalities.

According to Vasari, Masaccio was the best painter of his generation because of his skill at recreating lifelike figures and movements as well as a convincing sense of three-dimensionality.

At a preview screening at CinemaCon, the audience's reaction was mixed after being shown some of the film's footage at 48p, with some arguing that the feel of the footage was too lifelike ( thus breaking the suspension of disbelief ).

As a child she was given a lifelike chimpanzee toy named Jubilee by her father ; her fondness for the toy started her early love of animals.

The Classical period was marked by a rapid development towards idealised but increasingly lifelike depictions of gods in human form.

Fisher's head was stuck upon a pole on London Bridge but its ruddy and lifelike appearance excited so much attention that, after a fortnight, it was thrown into the Thames, its place being taken by that of Sir Thomas More, whose martyrdom, also at Tower Hill, occurred on 6 July.

When the film was released domestically in February 1956, many theatres displayed several of the pods ( made of paper ) at theatre lobbies and entrances along with large lifelike black and white cutouts of McCarthy and Wynter running frantically away from a crowd.

The first gun for a home console was in fact a big rifle, the Magnavox Odyssey's Shooting Gallery, which looked very lifelike and even needed to be " cocked " after each shot.

The increased realism of the puppets meant that their mobility was significantly reduced, ironically leaving the new design less lifelike than Anderson had hoped, as he recalls: " Suddenly, all the movements had to be as realistic as the puppets and that made it difficult for the puppeteers to animate them.

Much praise was given to the quality of Doom 3s graphics and presentation ; GameSpot described the game's environments as " convincingly lifelike, densely atmospheric, and surprisingly expansive ", while PC Gamer UK described the graphics and non-player character modeling and animation as simply " flawless ", stating that Doom 3 signalled the return of the Doom franchise to the forefront of the computer and video game industry, eleven years after the release of the original Doom.

Contemporary with Giovanni Pisano, the Florentine painter Giotto developed a manner of figurative painting that was unprecedentedly naturalistic, three dimensional, lifelike and classicising, when compared with that of his contemporaries and teacher Cimabue.

Standing alongside Leonardo and Michelangelo as the third great painter of the High Renaissance was the younger Raphael, who in a short life span painted a great number of lifelike and engaging portraits, including those of Pope Julius II and his successor Pope Leo X, and numerous portrayals of the Madonna and Christ Child, including the Sistine Madonna.

The PC method was simple and inexpensive, but the plastinated specimens ( PN method ) were more flexible, durable, and lifelike than those preserved by the PC method.

Artists making lifelike models has been a growing trend, and Patricia Piccinini's biotech showstopper The Young Family was publicised in 2003.

Film critic Roger Ebert noted that while he didn't once feel convinced Aki Ross was an actual human being, he conceded she was " lifelike ", stating her creators " dare us to admire their craft.

Demetrius of Alopece ( Alopece was a deme of Athens ), was a Greek sculptor of the early part of the 4th century BC, who is said by ancient critics to have been notable for the lifelike realism of his statues.

Tilley found that the game's " lifelike physics engine " was easily its best aspect, and noted that while playing the game, he threw a grenade across a room, which resulted in an explosion that sent enemies flying through the air in a realistic fashion.

This provides enhanced fidelity that under adequate analog signal conditions may allow AM stations to transmit music and other program content with a more lifelike sound.

This feature enhanced play value by making the doll more agile and lifelike.

In 2007 V. N. Tsytovich and colleagues proposed that lifelike behaviors could be exhibited by dust particles suspended in a plasma, under conditions that might exist in space.

* Record companies ( such as Victor, Brunswick and Columbia ) introduce an electrical recording process on their phonograph records in 1925 ( that had been developed by Western Electric ), resulting in a more lifelike sound.

The city is renowned for its Easter related Holy Week activities and traditions, culminating between Good Friday and Holy Saturday in the Processione dei Misteri di Trapani, colloquially simply the Misteri di Trapani ( in English the Procession of the Mysteries of Trapani or the Mysteries of Trapani ), a day long passion procession organized and sponsored by the city's guilds, featuring twenty floats of lifelike wood, canvas and glue sculptures, mostly from the 17th and 18th centuries, of individual scenes of the events of the Passion.

Method acting is any of a family of techniques used by actors to create in themselves the thoughts and emotions of their characters, so as to develop lifelike performances.

In Málaga the lifelike wooden or plaster sculptures are called " tronos " and they are carried through the streets by penitents dressed in long purple robes, often with pointed hats, followed by women in black carrying candles for up to 11 hours.

The character originated when Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope, a device that allowed for animation to be more lifelike by tracing motion picture footage of human movement.

Although both he and his contemporary readers were more credulous than most moderns, Foxe presented " lifelike and vivid pictures of the manners and feelings of the day, full of details that could never have been invented by a forger.

Mozley, Foxe presented " lifelike and vivid pictures of the manners and feelings of the day, full of details that could never have been invented by a forger.

It houses a Hawaiian-themed musical show " hosted " by four lifelike macaws whose plumage matches their implied countries of origin.

Most of the illustrations by Keulemans were produced through traditional lithography, allowing for a finished product that depicts a vivid, lifelike figure through depth and tone.

To force him to go along willingly, Khan replaced Scott with a lifelike robot who was ultimately murdered by Despero during his first mission with the Justice League.

He had it restored by a taxidermist and " recreated the headpiece with a lifelike sculpture of Lahr ".

Since then, games like Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault and Half-Life 2 have made use of coding that dynamically simulates mouth movements to produce sounds as if they were spoken by a live person, resulting in astoundingly lifelike characters.

Wray's storyline featured a committed long-term relationship with her Earth-bound partner Sharon ( played by Reiko Aylesworth ), the lifelike portrayal of which was very positively received by the lesbian community and press.