The novel coronavirus, like all viruses, is studded with proteins that give it its character and traits.
How many times have you seen the image? It looms behind newscasters during evening updates, gets handed out on printed flyers and scrolls by in tweet after tweet. It might even show up in your dreams.
Eckert uses art to make difficult medical concepts more approachable. For instance, the dozens of illustrations of birth defects she’s done over the years can be “a little bit easier for people to look at and understand” than photographs, she said. But for the coronavirus illustration, they went with what professional medical artists call a “beauty shot”: a detailed, solo close-up. There are the spike proteins, or S-proteins — the red clusters in the image — which allow the virus to attach to human cells. Envelope or E-proteins, represented by yellow crumbs, help it get into those cells. And membrane proteins, or M-proteins, shown in orange, give the virus its form.
Then, where other portrait artists might layer paint, the team layers programs. One piece of software, Autodesk 3ds Max, is “where all the magic happens,” Eckert said. “We think of it as our photography studio.” There, they arranged the virus’ parts, and tested different colors, textures and lighting.
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