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Published: 2018-06-20 18:03:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 451; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 0
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An illustration I did for work ( spagonanomedical.se/en/). It illustrates how the blood vessels (capillaries) in a tumor are of poor quality so nanoparticles (blue and about 1000 times to big for the scale) can leak out into the tissue. This is called the EPR effect (Enhanced permeation and Retention). The leakiness combined with poor lymph drainage allows us to deliver nanoparticles with a contrast enhancing content to the tumors so we can make nice images of nasty tumors. ...and everything was modeled in Blender and rendered with Cycles.Related content
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This kind of thing is probably the most difficult of all genres of 3d art. Science and medical modeling need to be spot on accurate, and artistic liberty is at a bare minimum usually. I think this looks amazing, but I wouldn't know what it's really supposed to look like anyway. haha.
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Thanks. This kind of image is more explanatory than accurate so quite a lot of liberty is exercised. The tumor looks quite natural but the vessel is way too big and the nanoparticles which would be colorless are way, way too big.
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Thanks for clarifying. Still, it's extremely impressive. I know someone who creates models for a medical manufacturing company. He works in-house as their CAD and 3d ad designer. He makes a lot of money, but the work is extremely laborious and must be perfectly precise to the real world counterparts. Very painstaking work I would imagine. He's well compensated, but always under some very extreme deadlines and complex projects. He does all their 3d modeling, which also requires photoscanning as well as precise CAD and polygonal models, and also uses the models in various video animations and motion graphics for the company too. Once a job is done, the company allows him to put the models up on various warehouse sites to sell to other companies or artists, and he gets a piece of that profit as well.
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Unfortunately I am more of a concept person so I'd probably lose patience before completing. I am well compensated for my concepts though, even if they are more scientific than artistic most of the time.
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That's excellent. Keep up the great works.
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I really like the organic material, it truly looks fantastic and eeew, eew, eeew 
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Excellent work & detailed explanation. Thank you for sharing!
Does it matter where in the body the tumor is located? Is it imaged in a CT scan, or some other test?
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Thanks. Most malignant tumors have this property. The scan is MRI. Magnetic imaging of the water in the body. It will matter greatly where in the body the tumor sits,
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Wow, cool, very well done, you are really expert with that organic stuff
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Thanks. Well, I am an organic chemist so that may explain things 
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Indeed, but knowing is not the skill to make it look right, it just really helps
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