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Preface - Who is this book for? Why Maya? What the book offers Acknowledgments Contact us; Part 1 - Setting the stage, Chapter 1 - Introduction the challenge wetware for seeing visualization in science organizational hierarchy - keys to biology in vivo and in silico - Enter maya endless possibilities references; Chapter 2 - Computers and the organism introduction information and process language and program high and low Interpret or compile? The backus watershed stored programs conditional control, the computed organism, the computational organism OOPS and agents summary references; Chapter 3 - Animating biology introduction, animation and film perception. Part 2 - A foundation in maya, Chapter 4 - Maya basics, getting started, how maya works, Maya's user interface (UI) summary; Chapter 5 - Modeling geometry, introduction NURBS modeling Tutorial; 05.01 - NURBS primitive modeling Tutorial; 05.02 - Deform the sphere using components tutorial; 05.03 - Make and deform a polygon primitive tutorial; 05.04 - Construction history tutorial; 02.05 Create a NURBS, fiber. Summary References. Chapter 6 - Animation, introduction animation tutorial; 06.01 - A keyframe animation tutorial; 06.02 - A simple procedural animation; Chapter 7 - Dynamics introduction, The dynamics module tutorial; 07.01 - Rigid body dynamics tutorial; 07.02 - Particles in a container tutorial; 07.03 - Create a playblast summary; Chapter 8 - Shading, Introduction the render menu set shading 209 tutorial; 08.01 - Shading; Chapter 9 - Cameras maya cameras tutorial; 09.01 - A camera on hemoglobin; Chapter 10 - Lighting Lighting 253 tutorial; 10.01 - Lighting the hemoglobin scene; Chapter 11 - Action! maya rendering, rendering Advanced, rendering techniques with the mental ray for Maya renderer tutorial; 11.01 - Batch rendering tutorial; 11.02 - Playback using fcheck, summary; Chapter 12 - MEL Scripting, Introduction the origins of MEL In a word - Scripting - getting started, MEL syntax Values, Variables, mathematical and logical expressions, the MEL command Attributes in MEL Conditional statements loops procedures, animation expressions, putting it all together - the MEL script tutorial; 12.01 - Building a MEL script, debugging your scripts, random number generation in Maya, summary; Chapter 13 - Data input/output, introduction, translators reading and writing files with MEL, Tutorial; 13.01 - Visualizing cell migration, summary; Part 3 - Biology in silico-maya in action, Chapter 14 - Building a protein, introduction, problem overview Methods - algorithm, design, encoding the algorithm results - running the script; Chapter 15 - Self assembly, introduction, problem overview Methods - actin geometry, diffusion and reaction events, reaction rates and probabilities, algorithm design, encoding the algorithm Results - running your simulation, summary, references; Chapter 16 - Modeling a mobile cell, introduction problem overview, model definition methods - generating pseudopods, algorithm design, A cell locomotion engine, encoding the algorithm, loading the script, running the script, Summary, references; Chapter 17 - Growing an ECM scaffold, introduction, problem overview model definition methods - Algorithm design, encoding the algorithm, grow your scaffold, results - parameter effects, summary, references, Chapter 18 - Scaffold invasions - Modeling 3D populations of mobile cells, introduction, problem overview, model definition methods - model design, encoding the algorithm, running the simulation Results - Data output, summary, references; Chapter 19 - Conclusion, glossary, further reading index.