I just released a biology education app very much like the preprint for the Vision Pro launch (and soon for iPad/iPhone). I worked with David Goodsell's group to integrate their whole-cell bacteria model and David wrote the content. It looks like this: https://twitter.com/timd_ca/status/1753250624677007492 Our first bit of content is a tour through a 300 million atom bacteria cell for Apple Vision Pro (>60 fps, stereoscopic, atomic resolution).

We developed the tech for iPhone, iPad and AVP mobile GPUs (UE5 doesn't support this on the devices we're targeting). iPad: https://twitter.com/timd_ca/status/1592948101144547328

The linked preprint is beautiful, and I love the pipeline. I wonder if it's possible to export to other tools like Blender? The linked preprint is part of a pretty cool field of research into mesoscale modeling and visualization. For me these are a few of the standout papers, projects and works in the area (and there are many more):

- le Muzic et al. "Multi-Scale Rendering of Large Biomolecular Datasets" 2015 [1]

- - Ivan Viola's group helped pioneer large scale molecular visualization. This reference should be in the preprint, IMO.

- Maritan et al. "3D Whole Cell Model of a Mycoplasma Bacterium" [2]

- - This is out of David Goodsell's lab and the model I'm using.

- Stevens et al. "Molecular dynamics simulation of an entire cell" [3]

- Brady Johnston's Molecular Nodes addon for Blender [4]

- YASARA PetWorld [5]

[1] : https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2015/cellV...

[2] : https://ccsb.scripps.edu/gallery/mycoplasma_model/

[3] : https://twitter.com/JanAdStevens/status/1615693906137473030 and https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fchem.2023.1106...

[4] : https://bradyajohnston.github.io/MolecularNodes/

[5] : http://download.yasara.org/petworld/index.html

I recently bought his book primarily for its illustrations and was painfully disappointed at the print quality. It was so bad I thought Amazon had sold me a counterfeit so I returned it and ordered directly from the publisher instead, at significantly higher cost, only to receive the same.

I’d happy pay more for a high quality print but don’t see anywhere to do so.