Enzymind Labs

Virus structure and mechanics information and references

General information about viruses

Virus and virion data sources

P22 virion

P22 overviews

P22 tail machine

P22 capsid

Other virions

Test renderings of the P22 virion EMD-1220 data set

Central slice. Note the needle and lead dsDNA detail (near center), and more than four concentric shells through the horizontal plane at center of capsid.

Stereo pairs (cross-view):

P22 virion structure, EMD_1220 rendering notes

"For a physicist, it is indeed a great joy to learn how we can use beautiful mathematics to understand the real world."  In Stephen Weinberg's "Without God" (9/25/08, The New York Review of Books)

Data source

Processing notes

 TED Video which speculates on the next 5000 days of the web. Infers connections between web and brain strucutre interconnectivity.

Also a nice fluid dynamics video of experiments being done on the interntational space station in micro gravity.

Stumbled upon a video clip demonstrating 'structured illumunation' microscopy which gives a 2x increase in optical resolving power past the usual diffraction limited 200nm feature size dictated by 1/2 wavelength of the smallest visible light ~400nm. It uses compuational image processing of moire patterns created by illuminating the sample with 2 or more gratings at various offsets to each other.

Engineering and constructing meso-scale redundant materials

How is it posssible to rationally design and make materials that have highly organized micro-structure?

Periodic and pseudo random structure occurs in many naturally formed materials, but not necessarily at the desired scale, or with a specific repeated unit or material. Non-periodic but deterministic structure is less common in non-living physical systems, but is the rule for living systems.

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Stillanimation

    Examples and comparison of a cyclic motion illusion

Directional edge contrast motion illusion comparison

One-dimensional

Checkerboard twist

TED talk on how mushrooms might be used to save the world.

Interesting mathtoid.

Interesting video on a parasitic wasp life cycle which utilizes a spider.  And another parasitic wasp that utilizes a caterpillar.