Rapid Visual Inventory & Comparison of Complex 3D Structures

2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge

In this video, Ph.D. animator Graham Johnson of the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, and colleagues take the normally jumbled pieces of a mouse pancreatic cell and stack them into neat piles. It's an organizational feat sure to please cleanliness-loving scientists. But the visualization also gives researchers and students a new look at the abundances and relative sizes of organelles, from mitochondria to insulin granules. “The cell is a lot more complicated-looking than most people think of it,” Johnson says. “We wanted to clarify it.” 
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