Biological models lend themselves well to visual representation. This project attempts to mathematically simulate biological happenings and visually present the results in three dimensions. The event under scrutiny is the nascent beginnings of mitosis. A crude rigging of a cell depicts centrosomes and their microtubules, chief operators in the mitotic process, as they interact with their environment. These events involve numerous inter-changing parts and the goal is for all of them to coalesce and produce a natural depiction of cellular activity. A computationally intensive task, it is all achieved with help from technological machinery, chiefly the graphics processing unit, that has been developed against the backdrop of recent tech booms. Run on a graphics processing cluster, the simulation and its development help hone proficiency in a variety of useful areas such as runtime optimization and continual code adaptation.

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Creator

• Ignatiev, Andrei

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 123809
• E-project-080724-113633

Palabra Clave

• biological modelling
• GPU programming
• mathematical simulation

Advisor

• Olson, Sarah D
• Korkin, Dmitry

Year

• 2024

Date created

• 2024-08-07

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mathematical Sciences

Source

• E-project-080724-113633

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Última modificación

• 2024-09-20