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It's a very interesting visualization, but probably not understandable without quite a bit of cell biology knowledge. The scale seems wrong in some cases, thou
by fabian2k 6y ago
It's a very interesting visualization, but probably not understandable without quite a bit of cell biology knowledge.
The scale seems wrong in some cases, though I'm not entirely sure. The mitochondria look far too small to me. For the ER which is similarly small it is quite clear that it's only showing a tiny subsection. In other parts the scale looks pretty good. And it does manage to convey how busy cells are a bit better than many visualizations.
For the audience here it might be worth emphasizing that these are pretty close zooms on cells, you can see individual proteins here. If you imagine an image of a cell, each visualization shown here is maybe a single pixel of that full image of a cell (I'm probably off by an order of magnitude here or two).
- ampdepolymerase 6y agoThat is correct, the magnitudes seem to be squashed so they all are within the same magnitude. In reality the size differences are huge.