124 Scientific Diagrams

Illustrating concepts in physics, chemistry and machine learning.

janosh.github.io/diagrams allows searching, sorting, opening in Overleaf and downloading figures (PDF/SVG/PNG) from this collection.

Have a TikZ/CeTZ diagram you'd like to share? Submit a PR with a .tex or .typ and a corresponding metadata .yml file in the assets/ directory and add yourself to the citation.cff file.

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2D Convolution	Amplitude vs Frequency Modulation
Angular Momentum Quantization	Atomistic Simulation Methods
Autoencoder Architectures	Ball Tree
Basis + Lattice	Bloch Sphere
Bose-Einstein Distribution 3D	Branch and Bound
Branch Cuts 1	Branch Cuts 2
Burrows-Wheeler Transform	Chain Homology
Change of Variables	Complex Sign Function
Convex Hull of Stability	Convexity and Jensen’s Inequality
Critical Temperature	CycleGAN
Cylinder to Plane	De Bruijn Graph
Deep Belief Network	DFT Choices
DFT Jacob's Ladder	Disk to Plane
DNA Double Helix	Dropout
Einstein Crystal	Ergodic
Euler Angles	Ferroelectric Response
Feynman Building Blocks	Feynman Diagram Loop
Feynman Diagram One Point	Feynman Diagrams Loop Regulator
Fractal Atlas	Gas Pressure on Wall
Generative Adversarial Network	Geometric Bayes
Gibbs Free Energy	GPU Batching
Grand Canonical Occupation Fluctuations	Graph Isomorphism
Graph Neural Networks	Gravitons
Gun Tackle	H2 Bond Breaking
Hamiltonian Graph	High Entropy Alloy
How Atoms Become Energy Bands	Isotherms
k-Nearest Neighbors	k-Space
Kohn Sham Cycle	Light
Long Short-Term Memory	M-Theory
MADE	Magnetism Types
Materials Informatics	Materials Informatics Challenges
Matsubara Contours	Maximum Flow Problem
Maxwell Boltzmann Distribution	ML Activations
MOSFET	Multilayer Perceptron
NMOSFET Amplifier Circuit	Normalizing Flows
Operator Orderings	Organic Molecule
Otto Cycle	Particle Statistics
Periodic Table	Physics Mindmap
Plane to Torus	Plate Capacitor
Propagator Fluctuations	QFT Propagator Poles
QFT Propagators	Cost vs Accuracy in Quantum Mechanical Simulations
Quantum Harmonic Oscillator	Random Forest
Regular vs Bayes NN	Regulated and Unregulated Propagators
Reinforcement Learning Greedy Policy	RG Flow in Theory Space
ROC Curve	Roost Update
Sabatier Principle	Saddle Point
Scattering Detailed Balance	Seebeck Effect
Self Attention	Semi-supervised Learning
Shortest Path in Weighted Graph	Sierpinski Triangle
Signal Sampling	Single-head attention
Skip Connection	Spherical Volume Element
Spontaneous Magnetization	Stacking Faults
String Worldsheet Topologies	Sublattice Points
Supervised Learning Setup	Symmetry Breaking
Thermodynamic Ensemble Transforms	Thermodynamic Potentials Venn Diagram
θ-β-M Diagram	Thomson Scattering
Timed Event Graph	Tori
Torus	Torus Fundamental Domain
Train-Test Split	Wannierization and Wannier Centers
Web Graph	Wetterich Equation
Which Band Gap Do You Mean?	Wyckoff Positions
XC Functional	zT vs n

Scripts

Export diagrams as PDF, SVG, PNG, and AVIF:

uv run --no-project --with pyyaml scripts/render_typst.py assets/bloch-sphere/bloch-sphere.typ
uv run --no-project --with pyyaml scripts/render_tikz.py assets/bloch-sphere/bloch-sphere.tex

Requires Typst or LaTeX (latexmk), ImageMagick, and ZopfliPNG. TikZ also needs Ghostscript; pdf2svg enables SVG export. Set preserve_colors: true in metadata to disable dark-mode recoloring.

Python and metadata checks

uv run --no-project --python 3.14 --with pytest --with pyyaml pytest -q
prek run --all-files

Rendering tests need the tools above. Metadata requires title, description, and unique tags.

Site visual checks

cd site
pnpm exec playwright install --only-shell chromium
pnpm build
pnpm test:visual

For intentional visual changes, run pnpm test:visual:update and review the PNG diffs.

📖   How to cite

You can cite the Zenodo record using the following BibTeX entry:

@software{riebesell_diagrams_2020,
  title = {Collection of scientific diagrams},
  author = {Riebesell, Janosh and Bringuier, Stefan},
  date = {2020-08-09},
  year = {2020},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.7486911},
  url = {https://github.com/janosh/diagrams},
  note = {10.5281/zenodo.7486911 - https://github.com/janosh/diagrams},
  version = {0.2.0},
  urldate = {2023-01-01}, % optional, replace with your date of access
}