Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Eye x100,000

Its been a busy past few weeks. I've updated the video on white blood cell extravasation in the previous post a few times. The system we use on campus to load the file to make the video has been acting up; rendering the individual scenes to compile the movie took 3x as long. Not to mention I ran it through 8 times. This roadblock comes with the territory.

Since then I've just about finished this project. Its a cellular landscape on the eye. The outermost layer is compiled of a mesh of fibroblasts. Its common to see gaps between these (crypts). Their actually visible with the naked eye. The octopus looking creature is a macrophage and below that its a nucleus of a fibroblast (they contain to nuclei: depicted in silhouette). As with my other work the final pieces will be on my website.