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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Question 1359: Double flip

This is a 1486 Botticelli painting which depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a fully grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore. It is currently displayed at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. What fictional character was inspired by this painting and conveyed both a sense of raw mechanical power and femininity?





Answer: GLaDOS, short for Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System, a fictional artificially intelligent computer system used in Valve Software's Half-Life video game series and the main antagonist in the video games Portal and Portal 2.

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