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TheGrandMaster1
05-15-2006, 07:13 PM
Though this at first glance might seem simple, after many, many attempts for a period of several months, I have met with nothing but failure. I have tried a geosphere with extrusions, wave modifiers, hundreds of lofts to make the dendrites…nothing has worked. I have here three images, of an axon/nerve. I am needing a model for medical illustration we can use multiple times. Does anyone have any insight how I might go about building this? A small tutorial perhaps, advice on the proper way to do it, a method to make the first branch that I could use to make all the others…anything? Help on how to model a axon/nerve cell such as illustrated here would be must appreciated.



Here is what I am trying to do:


Nerve 1 Reference (http://web.ics.purdue.edu/%7Emjschwei/images/nerve1.jpg)

Nerve 2 Reference (http://web.ics.purdue.edu/%7Emjschwei/images/nerve2.jpg)

Nerve 3 Reference (http://web.ics.purdue.edu/%7Emjschwei/images/nerve3.jpg)
paulrus
05-15-2006, 07:40 PM
Track down Policarpo - he's the expert at that kind of imagery:

http://www.policarpo.us/
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