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Your figures are *too* good #19

Open JamesOwers opened 8 years ago

JamesOwers commented 8 years ago

Please can you tell me how you made your figures?! Particularly in this post and very specifically this image. Are you using Tikz or something manual?

Thank you for the great blogs.

tgy commented 8 years ago

He drew them with Adobe Illustrator :smiley:

colah commented 8 years ago

Those were actually drawn in Inkscape, but I've recently been using Adobe Illustrator.

I wish I could make diagrams like this in an automated way, but if you want them to be really nice I think it is hard to avoid very careful manual drawing.

tgy commented 8 years ago

@colah I found we can obtain pretty nice figures drawn with TikZ. I then export them to SVG

It probably requires more time than drawing it by hand though. :confused:

JamesOwers commented 8 years ago

Cheers for letting me know. I've arrived at the same conclusions - I can't get what I want programmatically using TikZ without investing very large amounts of time, so I opt for inkscape predominantly to draw neural net architectures etc.

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@colah https://github.com/colah I found we can obtain pretty nice figures drawn with TikZ. I then export them to SVG

It probably requires more time than drawing it by hand though. 😕

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jwdunn1 commented 7 years ago

Also check out Google Drawings. In particular, the lines that connect the objects are "smart" giving great flexibility for rearranging network diagrams.

tantrantp7 commented 6 years ago

Content is also good :+1: , but I wonder which framework do you use for this blog ?

tgy commented 6 years ago

@tantrantp7 It's highly customized. At the bottom of the blog, you can read "Built by Oinkina with Hakyll using Bootstrap, MathJax, Disqus, MathBox.js, Highlight.js, and Footnotes.js.". So the base framework is Hakyll (Haskell equivalent of Jekyll).