Fig. 3: Numerical example of calculating the cell alignment in the domain expressed by the conformal mapping g(z) = z + αz3.
From: Predictive model of spatial nematic order in confined cell populations
a, b Calculation of the cell alignment in the original domain (a) and the unit disk (b). The blue, green, and red circles indicate original defects, mirror images of the original defects, and the +1 defects located at the zero points of \(g{\prime} (z)\), respectively.
