Simulation of the cytoskeleton between a nucleus and cell wall

The cytoskeleton is a fibre network found within a cell. This cytoskeleton continually changes with individual fibres continuously growing and shrinking. Here we simulate the cytoskeleton inside a cylindrical cell with a nucleus. In the middle image we can see the fibre network growing and settling to a stable state. Fibres are contained within the capped cylinder (cell membrane) and outside the sphere (cell nucleus). Both the sphere and cylinder are semi-transparent. At the top we have just the external capped cylinder (cell membrane) and at the bottom just the sphere (nucleus). The colour scheme shows a simple estimation of the force on the surface based on adjacency.