Is this the sort of thing you're looking for?
http://hsb.iitm.ac.in/~jm/ARCHIVES/Jan-Feb04/articles_files/blood_files/rbc-em1.png
or are you looking to show a bilayer?
DLM



"sahraoui" <sch### [at] uiucedu> wrote in message 
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> Hi
>
> I am trying to draw the following thing:
> A lipid membrane but some lipid molecules are connected by helices or
> springs.
> I tried to do it but it is not impressive. If anyone tried this before (it
> seems tedious)
> could he share his code with me and I will mention his name in my paper.
> Basically it is made of many sheets (like a cloth . gray let's say)
> every cloth has lipids molecule attached to it. and the top layer made of
> lipids
> connected by springs. not periodically but randomly.
>
> I am attaching an image done with povray but by someone else (it is in
> grayscale) and another image
> which shows the cut of the membranes with the lipids shown in blue. I 
> cannot
> attach two files. I will send another email  later with the other
> attachment.
>
> ciao
>

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