Fig 6. Simulations of SO-sorted metric measures using synthetic trees.

A. Top row shows the same dendritic tree reconstructions as in Fig 4A. Bottom row shows the respective geometric arrangements for which MST models reproduce the SO-sorted statistics observed in real cells (Fig 5). Number of target points (pts), balancing factor (bf) including its possible ranges in parentheses, and indications of sizes (grey with dashed lines) are given as numbers. Black dots show root node location. 2D or 3D spanning areas are sketched in the respective colours and distributions of target points are sketched next to the spanning areas (uniform for all but the rightmost model; see Table 2 for details). Granule cell and basal pyramidal dendrites were represented by the same model (violet). Colours indicate the respective models in the remaining panels (see Table 2 for details). B—D. Similar plots as in Fig 5B–5D. Shaded areas denote standard deviations.