One becomes two

you are this cell.

the life of one cell as a wall of paper, and you are the gold cell walking its threads

Drawn and modelled by Kevin Ngo, who charted the cell cycle with Lauren Tan's /statechart skill and checked it with TLC, a model checker: 61 states and 77 steps. It is his simplified model. Every fork you get is a step it allows. p53 holds a damaged cell, and the spindle check holds until every chromosome is caught. github.com/kevintngo/statechart-art (MIT)

Concepts: cell-cycle, mitosis, dna, mutation.

An interactive you play with one thumb, on Wundr.