Illustration - Science topic

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I would prefer suggestions of both Open source and Commercial software packages

Dear researchers,

I am writing to inquire about a free application to create good scientific images and illustrations for a review paper and meta-analysis I am working on. Additionally, I would be interested to know if there is a way to extract scientific data from published work, such as tables and graphs. I would be very grateful for any information or suggestions in this regard.

Thanks for your time.

Any Form of Visual Art including Illustration, Sculpture, Mural, Poster etc, from any time period.

Such as Chand Bibi playing polo, Akbar hunting, Camel fight.

Illustration, New species

Hello everyone,

Could you please recommend me a tool to draw such a figure for mathematical illustration?

Thanks

Could someone suggest a software able to make me realize illustrations for books or research papers? Something easy and intuitive as paint (so, not complex as a CAD), but with more features such as figures inclination, geometrical relationships among painted lines.

Access to complex scientific issues/disciplines is often limited to a specialized audience, but creating good scientific infographics can make research accessible through visual representations. Simple visual effects can provide effective communication, clear explanations of complex issues, and public access. Please share your experience with creating scientific infographics and designing graphical abstracts. :)

Hey guys,

I´m looking for a standard (and automatic) way to illustrate a sequence of screens used in an experiment. Is there any plataform or software that you can indicate for this purpose?

Thank you!

Learning the software with the User manual has been really tough for me, I will appreciate if video materials are sent to me to assist me in this process. As I learn faster with videos and Illustrations.

Not being able to comprehend the full functionalities of this software is indeed very frustrating for me, as my institution has provided the licensed version of the software to me. As I work hard to beat my graduate research milestone.

Hi, my teams and I are currently working on a literature review. We also want to make our article to be better processed and understood by others, thus we want to create medical illustrations. However, I always wonder how can we create medical illustrations without causing copyright infringement. For instance, if we want to draw an image of the heart and we used an available image on the internet. Can we take that image as an inspiration? If we can't, I'm just plain confused because of how many different images of a heart could it be?

How do 3-7 year olds understand common illustrations in primary school literature? How often do theory of mind deficits lead to a false understanding of illustrations? Should early readers, where illustration comprehension is of utmost importance take theory of mind barriers into consideration? Are autistic children who are in school due to inclusion at a disadvantage when it comes to understanding illustrations?

Sometimes, the plates left by taxonomists are all the information we have about certain species of animals or plants described on past centuries. In some cases, the physical types are lost or destroyed, in other cases they were never collected.

Anyway, these taxonomic problems often require the designation of a neotype, and the original illustration of the species can be crucial to solve the problem. Unfortunately, not all taxonomists were (are) great illustrators, some did not draw muuuch better than a regular person.

So, besides qualitative subjective analysis of likeness, I want to know if there is any way to quantify the (dis)similarity between the illustrations and the pictured species.

Which is the best Free Illustration Software available to convert microscopic entomological structures to line drawings?

How can we make scientific Illustrations from microscope images other than by focus stacking from the image camera?

In one of Louis de Broglie's early papers ("Sur le parallélisme entre la dynamique et du point matériel et l’optique géométrique." – J. de Physique. Série VI. 1926. 7. Р. 1.) he proves that the behaviour of what we now call "de Broglie waves" in the hydrogen-like atom (with a nucleus charge +Ze) is as if the atom behaved like a refracting sphere with the effective spherically-symmetric refractive index n(ν, r) given by the following formula:

n(ν,r) = √{(1+Ze²/hνr)² - (m_ec²/hν)²}

Here m_e is the electron's mass, ν is the wave's frequency, r is the distance from the nucleus and h is obviously Planck's constant.

Also, very curiously, he comments in passing that such an object (which de Broglie calls "refracting sphere of Bohr's atom") manifests "the qualities of mirage/illusion".

Now, my question is: can we actually build such a sphere, so that the light rays refracted therein would behave in the same way as de Broglie's waves behave inside the atom? If we could do this, then this would serve as a very nice "toy illustration" of the wave mechanics of an atom.

The problem is: are there any known materials (crystals etc) that would have such specific dispersion law? Not necessarily with the same numerical values of the parameters, but at least having the same shape of dependence on the frequency and radial distance.

Hi There,

I hope you are well.

Currently, I am studying a masters in Molecular Biology at Potsdam University, but I also work in Science Communication.

A colleague and I are founding a collective and shared office for people working in science communication.

We recently visited a potential office space in Prenzlauer Berg and are looking for likeminded people who would like to rent a working space and join the collective.

Apart from a science degree, potential candidates should also have some form of communication skills, e.g. illustration, animation, writing, marketing or conference production.

If this sounds like you, then please feel free to get in touch by emailing me at vizbio@gmail.com

We look forward to hearing from you!

All the best,

Joel

P.s. check out my colleague Thomas' visualisations at https://www.scistyle.com/

Hello,

I have an upcoming art project to draw an antioxidant molecule.

I'd like to draw the alpha-tocopherol molecule, illustrating the sub-atomic particles (nucleus and electrons) of the molecule as they would theoretically appear if we could actually visualize the electron particles orbiting around the nucleus for each atom in the molecule.

This would be a dramatized 3D representation, illustrating the sub-atomic particles in-motion rather than the static a "ball-and-stick" or "3d-space-fill" model seen in most textbooks.

However I can't find any book or program that shows the individual electron orbiting path for alpha-tocopherol. (such as the bonding orbitals)

Any ideas?

Thank you.

Illustrations of cerebral histology in textbooks and atlases are usually based on neuronal stains - cajal, Nissl etc. Will these 6 layers of cerebral cortex be seen on hematoxylin and eosin stained tissue slides?

I do not mean these microscopic illustrations of single cells shown by Hooke (1665) or Leeuwenhoek (1676); see Gest H., Notes Rec. R. Soc. Lond. 58: 187–20, 2004 [DOI 0.1098/rsnr.2004.0055]. I rather mean illustrations of mass occurrences or blooms in frescoes or paintings (of course not known as being of microbial origin at these times). Are there any?

I have found a nice illustration of diatoms algae in PlosOne article. Is it possible to reproduce it in my paper and how, if "yes"?

I would should be grateful if you could give me some names of books in Turkish.

I am currently researching Randolph Caldecott, the Ninteenth century childrens book illustrator and his connection with Whitchurch, Shropshire. Do you know of any informative resources or archives? Is anyone else researching this illustrator at present ? It would be helpful to make contact.

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I'm starting a research on Portuguese accordion picturebooks. Can anyone suggest some studies already carried out in different countries/languages? Thanks in advance!

The accordion book is a folded structure; the book block is made by simply folding a sheet of paper back and forth in page-width increments.

I am particularly interested in examples which educators could reasonably expect non-specialist learners of statistics to adapt for use in their own working lives. (Therefore, it should not require considerable training in programming in order to create the visual.)

Is it mandatory to provide illustration for a valid publication?

I am seeking images to take the place of these attached for a book on aphasia and related disorders that is now in press. I would need a simple permission form signed by the owner. The timing is important. I would appreciate offers and suggestions! Thanks!

I have used InDesign, Adobe illustrator etc. but I'm sure there are several other programs that would be more suitable for creating cell/microbiology illustrations.