I'm making a series of inheritance patterns, mainly for educational purposes. You can see an example in the attachment.
I'm looking for some critical feedback on this. What is good and especially what can be improved in your opinion?
Hi Luk,
I applaud your efforts to make inheritance more understandable for lay people and your figures are very appealing but you should ask whether they achieve any more than the traditional way of representing a pedigree (see attached). Both still need to be explained before they can be understood.
Another point is that you will most likely need to be able to represent several different modes of inheritance. How will you handle autosomal recessive carriers (eg attached)?
Thanks for your comments.
You are completely right Charles, in essence it is the same as the traditional pedigrees. However, I believe that the looks (the aesthetic appeal) can motivate people to look at it longer and feel more stimulated to understand. Of course, people have to look to the image to understand the concept and not just because it is nice or funny. Maybe the age of the target audience is important too here...
I attached an example of autosomal recessive inheritance. Does this make sense?
@Jana, I use mainly Blender, photoshop and illustrator for my illustration work.
Hey Luk, Nice work!!! I like the autosomal dominant figure. Not sure about in recessive one, though. The colour of the subjects reflect their genotype not the phenotype. Thus, I wouldn't represent then in 2 different colours.. Do u know What I mean?? You can be misinterpretated...
I totally understand your figure.. just to let you know that people can misunderstand your pics...
Hi Luk,
I agree about the traditional pedigree figures, people are not circles and squares so I do like your representation of people schematically. I also agree with the idea of using colour to represent phenotype and chromosomes to represent genotype.
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