# Visualising the Internal Structure of the Proton

**URL:** https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/visualising-the-internal-structure-of-the-proton/1442
**Category:** Tracking with Closeups
**Tags:** quark, proton, gluon, computer-visualisation, physics
**Created:** [28 May 2022 13:25 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/visualising-the-internal-structure-of-the-proton/1442 "2022-05-28T13:25:30Z")
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### Author: ![johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/johnwalker/32/17415_2.png) [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)
#### Post date: [5 June 2022 14:02 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/visualising-the-internal-structure-of-the-proton/1442/3 "2022-06-05T14:02:03Z")

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> [@ra\_montesano](#):
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> If a picture is worth a thousand words what is that animation worth?

For some of these computer renderings, ir can accurately be said that the picture is worth quadrillions of floating point operations. The raw data that went into the recently-published [image of the black hole](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/event-horizon-telescope-images-black-hole-at-the-milky-ways-core/1352) at the centre of the Milky Way was 3.5 petabytes of data. A petabyte is one million gigabytes.

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