The team managed to recreate cell division using the model, although a single pass took almost 10 hours with MATLAB software running on a 128-core Linux cluster.

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Although the computations involved are not trivial (they take about ten hours on a relatively powerful cluster of four Linux workstations) the limiting factor is getting sufficiently-high-resolution digital scans of paintings from museums.

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