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Fig. 16
Minimization of the energy of the cell boundary with attachment to a planar substrate.
(
a
) The energy landscape. The angles on the axes define the orientation of the cell body. The global
minimum is marked. (
b
) The conformation corresponding to the global minimum. Plotting con-
ventions as in Fig.
15
. Reproduced from Arkhipov and Maly (
2006a
, doi:10.1088/1478-
3975/3/3/006) with permission from IOP Publishing
cell will likely explore the dynamic interactions of the cell body and boundary. The
simplified approach of considering one as a constraint for the other, however, may
still remain valuable conceptually even after the methods of numerical treatment of
the fully dynamic interaction become improved.