Engraved figures

Scientific drawing carries the composition: fine wireframes, stippled points, clear axes, serif labels, and generous space inside a dense page. Before choosing a layout, open the reference showcase: one landscape plate (reference-plate.png) and a net-metric chart (reference-chart.png). Cyclic or redacted posters follow poster direction without a bundled poster file. Read multi-figure plates and chart direction. Match bundled density and grammar; use the user's subject and real data when claiming measured results.

Choose the right kind of figure

• Technical documentation: derive the relationships from source material or implementation. Prefer editable SVG with real text and an accessible title/description. Describe exactly what the marks, lines, boundaries and axes mean. Keep the mechanism legible. Read technical figures.
• Quantitative charts on paper: thin smoothed daily lines, one combined moving average, shaded windows and dashed event markers — not dashboard widgets. Read chart direction.
• Illustrative poster or standalone art: use the available image-generation workflow when a raster illustration is requested. Scientific geometry can serve as a metaphor, clearly labeled schematic. A torus does not establish a storage topology; a landscape is not measured performance. Read poster and redaction direction.
• Interactive or animated composition: use actual geometry in the requested renderer. Preserve the approved page, typography and camera composition. Agree the meaningful behavior from the request: rotating a form, scrubbing a time slice, following a path, selecting a neighborhood. Keep text stationary and readable. Add motion controls and respect reduced motion. Animation and export workflows remain separate from this visual style.

Honor the user's requested medium. Do not turn a request for an image into a website, a paper into an animation, or a diagram into a new product interface.

Visual grammar