Procedural Simple Epithelial Cell Line Generator with Blender Geometry Nodes - Materials included

Geometry nodes setup for Blender to generate a line of epithelial cells with a bezier curve.

Append the object in your file to be sure to obtain the Geometry Nodes setup and the materials. 

File / Append / VIZCIE_GN_SimpleEpithelialCellLine_V1.blend file / Object / Single Cell Line

In edit mode (TAB) move along the bezier handles to make your desired cell line shape.

Alternatively, you can also make any bezier line and later apply the Geometry nodes. For best performance, keep the bezier line in a single plane. Enter into edit mode (TAB), select all the handles (ctrl + A), scale in Y (S , Y, 0).

Features:

Cell:

• Cell Number.
• Height.
• Depth.
• Subdivisions.
• Width Randomness: Each cell can have slightly different width.
• Width Randomness Seed: Change the number to generate a different cell width distribution.
• Noise Displacement factor: How much cells deform from basic sounded squares shape.
• Noise Displacement time factor: For animation, how fast cells change the previous parameter over time.
• Cell-Cell separation.

Confined nuclei:

• Nuclei Apical-Basal: Control nuclei positioning.
• Nuclei radius: Note that the nuclei deform to not overgrow the cell shape. However, if you put a number that it is too large, artifacts may appear.

Cilia:

• Cilia Render Switch: Note that visualizing and rendering many cilia may slow down your computer. You switch off the cilia visualization to speed up your workflow.
• Cilia Density.
• Cilia Length.
• Cilia resolution: Axial resolution.
• Cilia Radius.
• Cilia Noise Scale: How much cilia differs from a straight line.
• Cilia Time Factor: For animation. How fast cilia move.

Supported version Blender 3.5.0

This product is free. If you want to contribute with a fair price, note that payment is in Japanese Yens (1 YEN = 0.0069 EUR on 11/04/2023). Thank you!