I havnt had so much fun in days, nor been so frustrated (LOL). I thought maybe I could use chatGPT or CoPilot to verify the number of peaks along a hexamer of SP-D, but there were a lot of barriers. In the process of asking the former to tell me how many bright spots were encountered in a tracing of an SP-D hexamer (a process which the first few encounters proved really interesting, i got this lovely image, and then silence and block.  It was “sweet” to provide me with code for python, but that is not what I had hoped to get.  But i felt this image was so beautiful, though so NOT what i asked for, that i would post it as a great mistake in my communicating what i wanted to a bot in sufficient detail.

It is so pretty that i thought i might turn it into some kind of cross stitch pattern, or perhaps a stained glass pattern.  Certainly this is a great printable image for christmas tree ornaments or window clings.  Who would have guessed.

I went to RCSB to look again at the molecular model of the neck and carbohydrate recognition domains of SP-D, it is possible that data from there were translated into my gwyddion filtered (dodecamer, gaussian blur 10px, limit-range 100-255) image.

The actual image used is shown below this “whatever it is”