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The life cycle of HIV in 3D [video]

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Re: The life cycle of HIV in 3D [video]

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I know it's just my own biased anthropomorphizing but the virus almost looks sinister and intentional in its actions.

Agreed. These Harryhausen-like creatures are every bit as menacing as the Kraken. I naively failed to realize the deadly complexity (genius) of the HIV virus. Well done piece.

Re: The life cycle of HIV in 3D [video]

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I think articles like Ken Shirriff's "Cells are very fast and crowded places"[1] are good companions for visualizations like this. It helps to keep in mind that the things moving around in cells are flying around at break-neck speeds if you scale them up linearly.

1 - http://www.righto.com/2011/07/cells-are-very-fast-and-crowde...

Re: The life cycle of HIV in 3D [video]

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post #7

I know it's just my own biased anthropomorphizing but the virus almost looks sinister and intentional in its actions.

The music really helps with that. The video gave me a spooky feeling.

Ha, I didn't even watch it with sound. Will have to do that when I get home.
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