FigMirror – Plot your data in a reference paper's style
FigMirror is a tool designed to help users plot their data in the style of reference figures from academic papers. It utilizes an iterative Drawer/Reviewer loop to refine the output until it matches the desired style. The tool supports both 2D and 3D figures, providing editable matplotlib scripts and a camera-ready PDF as outputs.
- ▪FigMirror allows users to paste their data and select a reference figure to mimic its style.
- ▪The tool features a Drawer-Reviewer loop that iteratively improves the figure based on visual reviews.
- ▪Users can start from a library of 139 paper figures across 25 chart families if they lack a high-quality reference.
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- ▪ I built FigMirror: plot your data in a reference paper's style — r/dataisbeautiful
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/VILA-Lab/FigMirror |
| Publication time | Sat, 23 May 2026 01:17:44 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-23T01:32:03.762Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-23T01:32:03.762Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | sYRa0PR0bolZ · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
FigMirror: Plot Your Data in Any Paper's Style. Pick a reference figure, paste your data, and get an editable matplotlib script plus a camera-ready PDF. Showcase | Quick Start | How It Works | Method | Contribute English | 中文 figmirror_demo.mp4 Showcase FigMirror uses a reference figure as the style target, then renders your data through an iterative Drawer / Reviewer loop until the output looks like it belongs in the same paper family. Reference FigMirror Output Reference FigMirror Output Reference FigMirror Output No high-quality reference at hand? Start from 139 paper figures across 25 chart families.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.