aposematic

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  1. Of a nature to warn or alarm; serving to warn or alarm enemies: noting characteristics of organisms which, when displayed, effect this. We often see the combination of cryptic and sematic methods, the animal being concealed until disturbed, when it instantly assumes an aposematic attitude. Encyc. Brit., XXVII. 147.
  2. Aposematic character any characteristic of a dangerous, poisonous, or unpalatable organism which, when displayed, serves to warn or alarm an enemy; a warning character. The hood of the cobra, the rattle of the rattlesnake, and the large white tail of the skunk are familiar examples.
  3. Aposematic coloring in dangerous, poisonous, or unpalatable organisms, conspicuous colors which warn or alarm enemies; warning colors.

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  • We use the theory of wavelets to create a new class of simple and fast noise functions that avoid these problems. abm action_selection ai algorithm animation ants aposematic artificial_prey autism autonomous bees bird_flight birds boids camouflage cellular cephalopod character_animation classification clustering clutter cocish coevolution collective color complexity compose_image construction cooperative crowd cuda data_driven disruptive distributed emergence evacuation evolution face fish flock flow fluid forage formations ga games gp gpgpu group gwap hardware history human humanfitnessfunction insects inverse_emergence lagrangian language learning lisp maps medical memory mocap modeling morphogenesis motioncamouflage music natureinspired navigation navmesh neighbor_finding noise nonviolent npr obstacle_avoidance optical_flow optimization parallel path_planning pattern pheromone physics planning plant predator ps3 pursuit reaction-diffusion recognition robotics saliency segmentation self_organizing shape simulation social spiders steady_state steering stigmergy surface svm swarm_intelligence symmetry team termites texture_analysis texture_synthesis theory traffic tron turbulence uncanny vehicle video_as_input vision visualization visual_search CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. Greek ἀπό, away, + ση̄μα, mark: see sematic.
 

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