Fig. 8.

Illustration of a monolayer growing and relaxing under intense proliferation. Initially, 19 cells are placed in a honeycomb arrangement (left). Then, all cells are simultaneously let to divide (middle). The resulting population of 38 cells is mechanically relaxed to equilibrium and the population radius tracked over the process (right). Note that due to adhesive forces present the equilibrium state can include slight overlaps between cells. The procedure is done similarly for an initial placement of 37 cells (not shown)