In silico
Subtitle: cell biology art and science with MAYA and MEL
By: Jason Sharpe, Charles John Lumsden, Nicholas Woolridge.
Contributors: Lumsden, Charles J., 1949-; Woolridge, Nicholas.
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 622
ISBN-13: 9780123736550
Subjects: Maya (Computer file); Cytology -- Computer simulation; Computer animation; Computer graphics; Three-dimensional display systems; Cells -- Programmed Instruction; Computational Biology -- Programmed Instruction; Models, Biological -- Programmed Instruction; Motion Pictures as Topic -- Programmed Instruction; Programming Languages -- Programmed Instruction
Genres: Programmed Instruction.
Other titles: Cell biology art and science with MAYA and MEL
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Computers and the organism; title: Animating biology; title: MAYA basics; title: Modeling geometry; title: Animation; title: Dynamics; title: Shading; title: Cameras; title: Lighting; title: Action! MAYA rendering; title: MEL scripting; title: Data input/output; title: Building a protein; title: Self-assembly; title: Modeling a mobile cell; title: Growing an ecm scaffold; title: Scaffold invasions: modeling 3D populations of mobile cells; title: Conclusion: a new kind of seeing.