Patterns of Mesenchymal Condensation in a Multiscale, Discrete Stochastic Model
Figure 2
Multipixel Spatial Representation of Cells
(A) Three cells on the spatial grid each occupying seven pixels.
(B) Cell changes shape. The region of the cell that contains the nucleus, indicated by the four gray pixels, is structurally maintained; two border pixels move to new locations, and one border pixel (top right) displaces a nucleus pixel, which gets shifted to the right.
(C) Cell rounding-up on fibronectin. The surface area in the presence of suprathreshold amounts of fibronectin is reduced with two border pixels moving into a quasi-third dimension above the cell.