#computer modeling

[revelingrexan]

pre-fallen tiny little itty bitty body Lucifer? YES PLEASE

this was SO FUN to make

modeled by me for an assignment, design originally by @diabloku in their "ALASTOR'S VICIOUS MOCKERY" video

(some more angles and a bonus cursed alternate version under the cut)

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some more angles to answer a question some people might have, like "HOW DID YOU EVEN GET THOSE WINGS TO FIT ON HIS BODY" (a few people asked me that lol. or at least one person did. i think a second person--ANYWAY)

answer: curve the wings out A LOT away from the body and give them tiny bases

BONUS: I HAD TOO MUCH FUN AND FORGOT THE ASSIGNMENT WAS ACTUALLY TO CREATE A BUST (HEAD AND SHOULDERS), NOT A WHOLE BODY, AND I DIDN'T KNOW HOW PEDANTIC MY PROFESSOR WOULD BE, SO I MADE THIS VERSION TOO

i wish i remembered to include his collarbone and some neck muscles. it would have been even more cursed

(more bonus info: i'm new-ish to the program we're using [ZBrush], so i didn't realize there's a torus -- a ring -- object i could have used for the halo. so i squashed a sphere and tried to cut a circle out from the center, but the program didn't cooperate. so i instead gave him a semi-halo thing lol)

[bpod-bpod]

Centriole Building

The centriole – an organelle vital for the faithful separation into each daughter cell when a cell divides – is composed of an assembly of proteins. Using expansion microscopy, this study correlates the spatial location of 24 of those proteins with structural features of the human centriole, and then models the molecular architecture of the centriole as it assembles (shown here)

Read the published research article here

Video from work by Marine H. Laporte and colleagues

University of Geneva, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland

Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Published in Cell, April 2024

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[intelligentliving]

It’s Possible To Cut Annual Flows of Plastic Waste Into The Ocean By 80%

We’ve heard it time and time again; the plastic pollution problem is getting out of hand. A massive truckload of plastic waste enters the oceans every minute because of the current global “throw-away” culture. The single-use plastic is littering beaches and endangering wildlife. Microplastic particles, created when the waste breaks...

[davidesky2]

by Borislav Kechashki.

[ddashha-art]

In Russia we fight corruption by forcing students make unti corruption agitation. Incredibly effective method, that’s why there’s is nearly no corruption at all in our country and soon we will outpace Denmark. Первоначально задание звучало, как антикоррупционный плакат, но чем дольше об этом думаешь в контексте мархи, тем больше хочешь уйти в нечто абстрактное.

[bpod-bpod]

Behind the Wave

Computer model of a 'carpet' of beating cilia – the whisker-like structures on many body cell types that sense or waft – reveals the mechanism of their synchronisation. Watch the emergence of a metachronal wave (a Mexican wave is one of these)

Read the published research paper here

Video adapted from work by David J. Hickey, Ramin Golestanian and Andrej Vilfan

Department of Living Matter Physics, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany

Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), September 2023

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Concentrating in Corners

Computer modelling and cellular studies reveal the interplay between key regulatory molecule WNT9b and geometric effects to shape the branching ductal tissue of the developing kidney

Read the published research article here

Image from work by Malte Mederacke and Lisa Conrad and colleagues

Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in bioRxiv, November 2023 (not peer reviewed)

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