20.416J | Fall 2014 | Graduate

Topics in Biophysics and Physical Biology

Creating figures for scientific papers

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Creating figures for scientific papers is discussed in the course, including Gestalt principles for how we interpret visual data. (a) An illustration of subjective contour. (b) Similar objects are visually grouped. (c) Objects placed close to one another are seen as going together. (d) Relative proximity elicits vertical or horizontal correlations between objects. (Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Limited: Nature. Source: Wong, Bang. “Points of View: Gestalt Principles (Part 1).” Nature Methods 7, no. 11 (2010): 863.)

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Creating figures for scientific papers
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A is three black circles with a white triangle superimposed. B is a smattering of black circles and squares of various sizes. C is squares arranged together. D is pixels arranged in matrix with different spacing between the rows and columns.
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Creating figures for scientific papers is discussed in the course, including Gestalt principles for how we interpret visual data. (a) An illustration of subjective contour. (b) Similar objects are visually grouped. (c) Objects placed close to one another are seen as going together. (d) Relative proximity elicits vertical or horizontal correlations between objects. (Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Limited: Nature. Source: Wong, Bang. “Points of View: Gestalt Principles (Part 1).” Nature Methods 7, no. 11 (2010): 863.)
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Macmillan Publishers Limited.
A is three black circles with a white triangle superimposed. B is a smattering of black circles and squares of various sizes. C is squares arranged together. D is pixels arranged in matrix with different spacing between the rows and columns.

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