A depiction of a reconstructed HSN neuron from the fly rendered with ray-tracing program POV-Ray.
In "Ceci n'est pas une pipe," René Magritte faithfully depicts a pipe but all the same proclaims that it isn't a pipe: it is a painting of a pipe. We allude to Magritte's painting here, showing that by rebuilding a neuron's anatomy, we create something that is not a neuron: it is the model of a neuron (see Cuntz et al., doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000251).
Image Credit: Hermann Cuntz (University College London).
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Citation: (2008) PLoS Computational Biology Issue Image | Vol. 4(12) December 2008. PLoS Comput Biol 4(12): ev04.i12. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pcbi.v04.i12
Published: December 26, 2008
Copyright: © 2008 Cuntz et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
In "Ceci n'est pas une pipe," René Magritte faithfully depicts a pipe but all the same proclaims that it isn't a pipe: it is a painting of a pipe. We allude to Magritte's painting here, showing that by rebuilding a neuron's anatomy, we create something that is not a neuron: it is the model of a neuron (see Cuntz et al., doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000251).
Image Credit: Hermann Cuntz (University College London).
