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Fig. 3 | Plant Methods

Fig. 3

From: The semi-automated development of plant cell wall finite element models

Fig. 3

An overview of the digitization and modeling process, including some of the output functions: (a) a compound microscope image of the cellular structure of a stained specimen of Zea mays stem cross-section (100 ×); b the Voronoi curves output from the ImageJ post-processing workflow; c the output of ColorCellsBySize, which colors each cell from smallest (blue) to largest (red), and counts the total number of cells, d the output of CreateFEM, showing the resulting splines converted into Python script for importing into Abaqus/CAE, (e) the output of MeasureCellSize, showing a histogram of the cell sizes normalized to the total quantity of cells, (f) a 3-dimensional rendering of the FEM developed from the output splines, (g) a stress analysis of the structure, depicting von Mises stress from minimum (blue) to maximum (red) stresses, overlaid onto the original compound microscope image

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