#scutoid

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[bpod-bpod]

Curve Ball

Epithelial cells – those lining cavities such as the gut as well as covering organs – packing into tissue take on a 3D shape dubbed scutoid enabling tissue curvature. Here, by studying sea star embryos, the combined influence of cell density, tissue compaction and cell proliferation on scutoid formation and resulting epithelial architecture is revealed

Read the published research article here

Video from work by Vanessa Barone and colleagues

Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/ Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain

Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Development, May 2024

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official shape post

i am actually gonna accuse you of having a shape/math fetish for being able to name scutoid off the top of your head

the inherent eroticism of two scutoids fitting together

[goosessideblog]

we need to start making flatsonas and spacesonas NOW. reblog with what shape youd be

[emeraldelysium]

COCONUT PICTURE PLEEEEEEEEEEK

apologies for the delay

gaze upon her glowiness

[sqrtgun]

Scutoid September !!

[daily-pilby]

day 52

i would've drawn piltoid (pilby scutoid) but the shape intimidates me.

[farglefarf]

"What are you making?"

"A papercraft of some scutoids."

"....oh"

Like, oh yeah, I'm sorry, I forgot you hate things you don't already now about?

Wait, normal people don't feel trapped behind a bubble of plexiglass that prevents them both from being included like regular people but also misunderstood? That's crazy... me neither....

[confoundepangolin]

favorite word?

oh fuck oh shit. opalescent? no that's basic and untrue. exoculate? it's sure fun to say and sure I am in the eye/stabbing out your eyes fandom but Am I Really Going To Go With Exoculate (i think not). ah fuck I'll be real one time I read a word in a medical journal and it sounded so good I wrote it on a post it but I lost the page and the post it and I've been chasing that high ever since. but that's not a word it's a pathetic story. pathetic is also a basic word. uh. um. ah shit. damn I'll be honest I really like schlockmeister. schlockmeister is a really good word. but do i want that to be my legacy? if we're taking other languages then toki pona's "kalama" or "pakala" are really good for me. not including the raccoon word because I don't remember how to spell it. uhhh this is so much pressure um I like nucleation. as a word. nucleation site. it makes me feel accomplished and unlawful. scutoids are cool and sound cool but really really I have to circle back to schlockmeister. I've been a schlockmeister and been affected by schlockmeisters in my life and It's Really Fun To Be A Schlockmeister but not for money or anything I'm not an important scammer just a silly little guy. final answer schlockmeister. damn exoculate is really nice to say. abacinate is a close second. does losing your eyes sound so good because you can't see anymore so it should at least be nice to hear about what happened? no I can't do that in the eye fandom it's brainrot. schlockmeister. locking schlockmeister in. thank you and have a great day

[backrooms-pantheon-convergence]

Entity 140: The Storyteller

Art By: Aazrael-Reaverr, The Portrait of the Writer, Poliacci, Scutoid, WhiteGlove Art.

[anonymous-leemur]

hi hello howdy. i am. looking for a specific icon.

its one that kinda looks like this?

there was 3 icons i think (one for you, one for your friend, one for. idk.) i think one shape was green and the other was orange? dont know though.

thank you in advance btw ^_^

Yeah that's the scutoid! I'll belong it right after this.

[newcenturygallery]

Meeting of the gods be like:

The Keymaster by Mctoran, Entity 220 - "The Catmaster" by scutoid studios (CC-BY-SA 3.0)

[sanemi-the-teach]

Of you listen closely enough you can hear your students.

That or the other adults

I can, and I'll be sure to have them slove just that, the area of a scutoid.

[arceusthecat]

I hate it when you come up with a perfect scene for a fic but have no idea how to make... the rest of it.

Like I really want to do a 5+1 things Wrightworth fic with increasingly silly airport signs that of course ends with "Kilometers Precipiceimportance" because I headcanon Maya giving everyone Nicholas-names and of course Phoenix loves it and expounds even more.

BUT I CAN'T COME UP WITH THE OTHER FOUR SCENES OR THE ONE WHERE MILES IS WAITING FOR PHOENIX WITH THE SIGN

AAAAAGH!!

I was able to turn bloody scutoids into a found family ficlet but waiting at the airport with a sign is too much apparently!

[your-tutor-abacus]

Fikwakyet

Translated to "Fairport" in the English versions of the Sunspot Chronicles, Fikwakyet is a city that is more unique than any other in the Garden of `etekeyerrinwuf.

I explain a bit about the why of that in my own book, Ni'a. But, to recap:

When the Sunspot was built, the Founding Crew designed the shapes of the corridors, the contours of the Garden, and the placement and foundations of the cities. Then they let the Children build upon and between all of that and make the ship their own.

But Fikwakyet was a special project. Fenmere (a.k.a. Fenemere) wanted to run an experiment, and managed to get the Crew Council to approve it.

Part of the whole point of the Sunspot was to make a strict and sudden cultural break from the millennia of fascism that had been plaguing their predecessor ship, the Terra Supreme (Feruukepikape). And for most of the Sunspot's architecture and culture, everything was derived from shapes and themes found in nature, and everything that reminded the Founding Crew of the Terra Supreme was done away with.

Fenmere contended that certain aesthetic choices were not inherently fascist, and wanted to demonstrate this by having one city where certain old elements could be reintroduced, starting with rectangular foundations for its buildings (instead of the scutoid structures found everywhere else on the Sunspot).

Fenmere had other reasons for doing this, besides trying to prove this point, and those reasons are likely to be visited in the last few chapters of the Sunspot Chronicles (I'll refrain from spoilers here).

The result is that, somewhat coincidentally, due to how right angles tend to work, when we finally made contact with Earth through the Tunnel Apparatus, it was remarked upon how similar Fikwakyet is to many Earth cities.

There are some critical differences, of course. The scales of things are not the same, because we build to accommodate both the largest and the smallest of our people, as well as for many disabilities.

Also, we have nothing like industry or commerce. At least, not driven by anything remotely like profit.

@ashwin-the-artless explains this in nems post titled Cities.

But, I'd like to use this opportunity to highlight another aesthetic difference. The alignment of our windows.

This is something that can be seen in almost all Sunspot cities, except perhaps Agaricales (which is a little more chaotic than most).

There are two axes of spectacular views on the Sunspot: foreward and aft; and spin and antispinward.

To the fore and aft, you can witness the sunbirths and sundeaths, and also the moonbirths and moondeaths. It some people really value that, and build their houses to give them as much view of that axis of the Garden as possible from anywhere in their house.

Perpendicular to that, spinward and antispinward, you can see the curvature of the Garden on a clear day, and the geography of it and neighboring cities, and honestly, even though I've lived with those views for the entirety of the Sunspot's existence, I still find them utterly breathtaking.

We try to show this off with the other photos of the Sunspot we share with you. This photo, here, however, demonstrates the effect on the architecture of the houses.

It's pretty rare that you'll find any building that is not aligned with one of these axes. And those that are tend to have wrap around windows that accommodate views of as much of the Garden as possible all around.

Another difference between the Sunspot and the Earth at the time of this writing is that our windows are more durable, more insulating, and more configurable. We can change their transparent and reflective properties on command. Which means that we have very few incentives to not make a wall a window, except perhaps to give us room to hang something or to place furniture against it in an aesthetic way.

But, solid walls and ceilings are still just a tad more insulating than our windows, so some people do opt for more opaque housing.

But if you don't want the views or the light, you'll usually choose to live belowdecks anyway.

[shapeanon]

Thoughts on the Scutoid shape?

A very interesting shape!

Look. two of them can fit together like this:

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