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Sousanis Nostos GoL Cells

This is an extremely complex comics page (2-page spread) drawn in black and white. There are a lot of circles - i don’t know how many, i lost track a long time ago. Upper left, panels are 5 layers of concentric circles - the four outer rings split into segments - each filled with a different type of cell from the human body, the center being a stem cell. Below this/underneath it as well, a circle with a blueprint grid on it, with blueprint drawings of a baby in different views. Rising upward from this, a ton of small circles with tiny drawings in them of the inner workings of a cell, the scaffolding that helps the nucleus find the center of the cell and how that same process splits the cell. We are now on the right half of the spread and have moved back to the top (The text boxes facilitate reading flow here) the circular panels are now filled with the early stages of the blastocyst - branching off from this is another series of circles that show a progression of the fractal Sierpinski’s Triangle. Below all of this and leaning back onto the first page, is a large circle that is cropped, so we only see about the upper half and not all of the right side, upon which there are a number of examples of the Game of Life on bits of grid. Overlaying this are a series of segmented rings in 3dimensions, each segment functioning as a panel. Those panels contain some of the development of body plan for the cell, the latter sets of rings shows somite formation. How it all fits together is a bit more complicated than that!!
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