The goal of this seminar is to create a procedural model of call membrane shape extracted from real-life cell data. The cell data can be obtained from Allan Cell institute database [1], where thousands of cells are labeled and their shape can be extracted and used for defining the membrane model parameters. Use statistical shape modeling (e.g. [3]) to define a cell shape. The model must allow users to customize the basic cell shape parameters while retaining the randomness of shape through model seed parameter.
[1] Membrane (CAAX). url: https://www.allencell.org/data-downloading.html
[2] A. Kessel, “The Living Cell Gallery”. url: https://amit1b.wordpress.com/the-molecules-of-life/10-the-living-cell-gallery/
[3] T. Vrtovec, D. Tomaževič, B. Likar, L. Travnik, F. Pernuš, “Automated Construction Of 3D Statistical Shape Models”, Image Analysis & Stereology, 2004.