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Reference Image to Scientific Figure
Upload a visual reference for composition, structure, or visual language. PaperFig helps you develop a new research figure around your own scientific explanation.
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Use an image whose structure or visual direction is relevant. Explain what should be learned from it and what must be different.
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A reference can guide structure or visual reasoning while your prompt supplies the new research content. Check permissions and scientific accuracy before reuse.
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Upload an image that helps communicate composition, relationships, or visual hierarchy—not an image you intend to copy blindly.
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Describe your own mechanism, labels, stages, and constraints. Say clearly which visual idea should be kept and which content must be new.
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Continue to /create, verify that the result reflects your research, and revise any structure that could confuse readers.
Use a reference when you need help with composition or visual hierarchy but the scientific content must come from your own work.
Study a clear structure and develop a new mechanism or workflow without carrying over the original claims.
Borrow a familiar visual rhythm to make a complex research story easier for a new audience to follow.
Use a reference as a conversation starter for how to group steps, compare conditions, or show a process.
Give collaborators a shared structural direction before deciding on the final labels, data, and visual details.
Separate visual guidance from scientific content so the resulting draft can be grounded in your own research.
Use a source image to suggest grouping, comparison, sequence, or visual hierarchy.
State what should be different, including your own mechanism, stages, labels, and constraints.
Pair the visual cue with a precise description of the new scientific question and intended conclusion.
Inspect the new draft for accidental similarity, incorrect details, and any content that needs permission.
References work best when they answer a specific design question: how should the sequence read, where should the comparison sit, or how can a complex process be grouped? Pair the image with a precise description of your own science.
Use references only when you have the right to use them or when your workflow supports lawful analysis and transformation. Do not reproduce another team’s labels, data, figures, or distinctive artwork without permission.
It can suggest composition, grouping, visual hierarchy, or a type of scientific relationship. Your prompt should define the new research content and required changes.
No. Check copyright, license, attribution, and institutional policy. Use references to understand structure, and create a figure grounded in your own verified work.
No. The reference is used as guidance for a new draft. Review the output carefully to make sure it does not introduce confusing similarity or incorrect scientific details.
Yes. The more clearly you describe the mechanism, stages, labels, and intended conclusion, the more useful the reference becomes as a design starting point.
Upload it to create an AI scientific figure draft grounded in your own research, then review the result in the workspace.
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