Scientific Pictures

The easiest way to draw pictures in your paper, is imitation.

• Firstly, you need to know what you will draw and what is the caption and conclusion you want to convey in the picture.

• Look at the related work in your paper, glancing through every picture with a question in your mind: "can I use this picture (roughly) to illustrate my caption/conclusion?" Have at least two candidate pictures to refer.

• Draw a sketch with your pen, mimicking the referred pictures and modify to suit your need.

• Show your sketch to your co-authors with referred original pictures.

• Draw it.

How to fail a scientific drawing?

• Blurry image in the paper (Remedy: export to PDF)

• Typos in text

• Have large margins

• Un-aligned lines and squares.

• Inconsistent colors

• Given a phrase in a picture, cannot find its appearance in main body of the paper.

• ....More to come

Useful links:

• Neural Network Architecture: https://github.com/dair-ai/ml-visuals?tab=readme-ov-file

• Simple Python Programs for Figure Creation: A simple code for plotting figure, colorbar, and cropping with python

• Paper Picture Writing Code by MLNLP-World: https://github.com/MLNLP-World/Paper-Picture-Writing-Code