Ontology of an Image

The cell appeared as image, as diagram, until it became represented in some more technological manner, which is, not to say photographed, strictly, but digitally apprehended. Recently, I have seen a human cell and its contents shimmering in purple, pink, green and yellow, and blue. What I have seen is "an image of a cell" made by a biomedical animator, Evan Ingersoll, in association with biological chemist, scientific visualization researcher and artist, Gael McGill. Its lateral view shows the internal segments of a cell: perceptible are the cell wall, Golgi apparatus, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, and hundreds of protein structures and membrane-bound organelles. It is a Eukaryotic cell, which is found in humans, animals, fungi, and plants. The rendering of the cell which can be clicked on, enlarged, manipulated, its aspects highlighted, its pathways and movements delineated is an effort to recapitulate the myriad pathways that are mobilised in signal transduction, protein synthesis, endocytosis, vesicular transport, cell-cell adhesion, apoptosis, and other such biological processes.