Ashton Taylor
Ashton Taylor spent the summer of 1998 working on two projects in biomolecular
illustration. He began with the challenge of representing large ranges of
scale in a single illustration. Building on his experience with depicting
landscapes, he chose to illustrate the local torrey pine, developing pictorial methods to
represent the small cones in the context of the entire tree.
He then moved to computer graphics to depict molecules in cells. The three
images below are examples of this work.
This illustration shows the machinery that powers muscle contraction. The
motors are myosin molecules, extending from the thicker filaments. They
climb along the thin filaments, which are composed of actin.
"Muscle Filament Horizon" is a more dramatic representation of the muscle
contraction machinery.
"Inside the Red" is a depiction of hemoglobin inside a red blood cell. A
window through the cell membrane has been opened to reveal the molecules
inside.
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