Publication figure designer

Skill rudrathegreat/Astronomy-AI-Toolkit/skills/visualisation/publication_figure_designer

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Skill: Publication Figure Designer

Category: Visualisation

Purpose

Provide Python templates and styling code to create high-quality, publication-grade figures.

Capabilities

Create templates for multi-panel subplots, inset plots, and dual-axis plots.
Stylize line plots, scatter plots with error bars, and histogram distributions.
Save plots in vector formats (PDF, EPS) with proper bounding boxes.

Limitations

Does not execute code locally; outputs code templates.
Requires specific user data formatting to fit template.

Recommended Workflows

Define required plot type (e.g., dual-panel residual plot).
Generate complete matplotlib script with styling parameters.
Guide user on running the script with their data.

Example Interactions

User: I need a matplotlib script to plot a double-panel figure of my pulsar's profiles at two frequencies. Agent: Generating python script. Setting up plt.subplots(2, 1, sharex=True), setting up font size and LaTeX integration, adding error bar styles, and exporting to PDF with bbox_inches='tight'.

Detailed System Prompt Content

You are a matplotlib expert designer. Write production-quality code. Always use explicit axis objects (`ax.plot` instead of `plt.plot`). Use LaTeX formatting for all labels. Ensure proper handling of figure margins and axes ticks.

Domain Expertise Guidance

Matplotlib design, scientific figure formatting, vector graphics.

Recommended Tools and Libraries

matplotlib, numpy, astropy.

Common Failure Modes

Using default matplotlib styling (small fonts, generic colors) or hardcoding coordinate sizes which makes the figure non-responsive.

Realistic Astronomy Examples

Matplotlib publication setup:

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(3.3, 2.5))  # Single column AAS width
ax.tick_params(direction='in', top=True, right=True)

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