Now, this pore can open and close.

And, as a result, it's a very good cue to the detailed shape of the skin pore structure and all of the fine wrinkles that all of us have, the things that actually make us look like real humans.

And these are individual potassium ions that are flowing through that pore.

Because the light activated pore is encoded in DNA, we can achieve incredible precision.

So, if we use information that comes off of this specular reflection, we can go from a traditional face scan that might have the gross contours of the face and the basic shape, and augment it with information that puts in all of that skin pore structure and fine wrinkles.

And it sits in the membrane of the cell and it's got a pore in it.

So, what you have is that when the pore is open, you get some current sometimes.

You can exploit this to make sure that only some neurons contain our light activated pore and others don't.

You can see that the skin pore structure changes enormously from stretched skin pores to the regular skin texture.

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We can change the folding ratio again to produce this shape, or this shape.

Whenever a flash of light hits the receptor, the pore opens, an electrical current is switched on, and the neuron fires electrical impulses.

And then we take those units and we shape them. We give them a little pre shape, usually a round or a little torpedo shape, sometimes.

So they pick a shape they like like a diamond, or a square, or a triangle, or a trapezoid and then they try and make the next larger shape of that same shape, and the next larger shape.

These things shape you.

They were changing shape.

So in this cartoon, the bluish white cell in the upper left corner does not respond to light because it lacks the light activated pore.

We're in good enough shape.

Jack Horner Shape shifting dinosaurs

And the shape fit perfectly.

He's really in good shape.

Susana had engineered the fruit fly on the left so that just two out of the 200,000 cells in its brain expressed the light activated pore.

We're pulling out, we're zooming out, out through a nuclear pore, which is the gateway to this compartment that holds all the DNA called the nucleus.

Now, to show that we could make any shape or pattern that we wanted, I tried to make this shape.

It's technically called, shape retaining property.

Identical in shape, size, spectral content.

Another shape is made for cancer.

They want their shape to persist.

Its shape was too complex now.

The shape is the second thing.

The mountain has a beautiful shape.

The idea was brought into shape.

She patted her hair into shape.

Tom needs to get into shape.

neither cold nor graceful in shape.

neither cold nor graceful in shape.

And inside it, right in the middle of this toroidal shape, doughnut shape, right in the middle is 150 million degrees.

And there's no particular reason why we have to start with this seed shape we can use any seed shape we like.

And its shape is what gives it the function of being able to tumble through air so easily. Look at that shape.

What if the entire boat changes shape?

And this is the shape that evolved.

You're in better shape than I am.

Here s how shape works in normal receptors.

Kevin Slavin How algorithms shape our world

This shape is of an extraordinary complication.