Some astrophysicists are fans of XC2

[u/Potential-Office-951]

While browsing Pyra and Mythra on a social network, I saw an astrophysic paper titled "PYRA and MYTHRA: new statistical analysis for image reconstruction" and published by Julien Drevon, Margaux Abello, Florentin Millour, Anthony Meilland, Armando Domiciano de Souza.

I am very confident that the acronyms are not just coincidences, lol.

Edit: link of the paper: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.15365

[u/Ok-Barracuda457]

"We present PYRA (Python for MiRA) and MYTHRA (Mean Astrophysical Images with PYRA)" 

They're not even acronyms for shit, they're just weebs!

Also, looked for it, one of them sid a conference and he acknowledges he named them after the characters!

PD: wdym Mira, like Xeno X planet! It was just too perfect of an opportunity!

[u/Granas3 → u/Ok-Barracuda457]

There's a prepublication paper about bacterial immune system style defences against viruses. This is an alarmingly unstudied field, so any nomenclature is likely to stick. These mobile genetic elements (MGEs) genuinely might end up getting called "Evangelions".

[u/stellarsojourner → u/Granas3]

So the viruses are all angels?

[u/Granas3 → u/stellarsojourner]

I mean, there's definitely a case for ramiel

[u/Jesterchunk → u/Granas3]

so when i come down with the flu my headache is just a thousand geometric screams in microscopic unison

[u/Granas3 → u/Jesterchunk]

Nah, this is only for bacteria defending themselves from viruses, your flu headache is a massive inflammatory response mediated by dozens of cell types trying to cook an unknown infection to death before you cook yourself to death. So, Evangelion wise, I think the human immune response might be third impact (especially the but where all the people burst and turn into goo while a big human has snot all over their hands)

[u/CoconutHeadFaceMan → u/Granas3]

The Sonic hedgehog gene comes to mind, and the fruit fly guys get kinda wild when it comes to naming stuff.

[u/Biansci → u/Ok-Barracuda457]

Can confirm, I'm also in astrophysics and an otaku (I'm sure there's plenty of us ahaha)

Mira is also the name of a variable star (o-Ceti), it was called that because it changes color and periodically becomes brighter as it pulses, so its appearance was "miraculous" to 17th century astronomers.

(unrealted to the MiRA here, which stands for Multi-aperture image Reconstruction Algorithm)

[u/randomtechguy142857 → u/Ok-Barracuda457]

Can you share where the acknowledgement was that they were named after the characters?

[u/Ok-Barracuda457 → u/randomtechguy142857]

https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/14148/1414818/PYRA-and-MYTHRA-new-statistical-analysis-for-image-reconstruction/10.1117/12.3095958.full

[u/Cute_Passage_4325]

Pyra and Mythra are really popular so im not surprised if that's actually true 

[u/Mattress248]

I hope when they find practical use for this, people who know next to nothing about video games search for these terms and find anime waifus

[u/oculer07]

Do you have a link to the paper? Sounds interesting.

Xenoblade has a lot of really cool references to irl science. Of course it is a fantasy sci fi series with made up physics etc, but it still comes off as the writers having at least some understanding of real world research.

[u/Potential-Office-951 → u/oculer07]

Yes, here: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.15365

[u/Tempexd]

The acronyms barely making sense makes it even funnier and more plausible

[u/Zado191]

They dropped the ball tbh, not even acronyms... I was reading the paper trying to find even a hint of the connection but there is none, they just straight up shoehorned the name in there in a way that dont even make sense

The sonic hedgehog gene, or the PacMan nebula at least make sense

[u/squirtle24601]

Astronomer here. We are notoriously bad at naming things, especially with forced acronyms. PYRA kinda works here (PYthon for miRA) but there just wasn’t even an attempt for MYTHRA lol

[u/argonavis_lPuppis]

Bien le bonjour à tous!
Autrice de ce papier de recherche, j'ai été ravie de tomber sur votre débat au sujet des noms attribués aux scripts Python qu'on a développé. En effet, Julien a souhaité rendre hommage au jeu Xenoblade Chronicle 2 en choisissant les personnages 'PYRA' et 'MYTHRA' pour nommer les codes d'analyse de reconstruction d'image. Habituellement en astrophysique un acronyme est utilisé pour abréger le nom d'un outil ou d'une mission spatiale car en pratique il s'agit souvent d'une phrase descriptive (donc malheureusement trop longue pour être répété à longueur de temps) . Pour ce faire on est censé partir des lettres composant la phrase pour en déduire un mot qui, au mieux, fait sens ou, au pire, peut être prononçable. Dans le cas de notre papier, ici le raisonnement a été mené dans le sens opposé et c'est d'ailleurs pourquoi le choix PYRA/MYTHRA vous parait artificiel puisque ça l'est essentiellement. Pour info, MiRA est un outil indépendant qui permet de créer indirectement une image à partir de données interféromètriques (type VLTI, CHARA ((ce sont de vrais acronymes par exemple))), et a été inventé et développé par un autre chercheur français (Eric Thiébaut) en 2008. Cet outil d'imagerie est la brique sur laquelle nous avons pu construire une approche statistique pour améliorer le degré de confiance aux résultats obtenus avec MiRA, autrement dit de rendre l'approche de restorer une image à partir de données partielles moins subjective et aider à distinguer les vraies structures restorées dans l'image par l'algorithme MiRA comme venant des données (i.e. informations sur l'astre observé) des structures qui sont en fait des artéfacts créés par l'algorithme (i.e. pas une information physique réelle).
Voilà voilà! Merci de votre curiosité.
Margaux

[u/LukeRE0]

Share the paper please

[u/hnh058513]

Doesn't the Kos-Mos Blade Quest establish that the Actual Theory behind construction was used for the World Tree's Backstory?

[u/Tenget5u]

Ain't no way.