recreate-scientific-figure

Recreate Scientific Figure in Illustrator

Coordinate the four-role protocol: Designer, Drawer, Reviewer, Corrector. Keep the roles logically separate even though you perform all four. Use design-scientific-figure for the spec, audit-scientific-figure as the Reviewer, and correct-scientific-figure as the Corrector.

Reconstruct structure; never trace. Tracing preserves appearance and destroys semantics, which is the entire point of the exercise. Image Trace, "place the reference and draw on top", and pasting vector art are all failures, and audit_figure reports them as trace-signature.

A successful tool call is not evidence of anything. Only two channels are evidence:

• geometry — audit_figure, which proves internal correctness deterministically;
• appearance — an exported PNG compared against the matching reference crop, judged visually.

A passing audit does not mean the figure resembles the reference. A good-looking render does not mean the structure is sound. Require both.

Before drawing

1. Call get_document_info to confirm Illustrator is reachable and see what is already open. If the user has documents open, do not touch them — create your own with create_document.
2. Inspect the reference at full resolution, then region by region at readable resolution.
3. Produce a reconstruction_spec with design-scientific-figure: region ids, object names, geometry, styles, connector routes, grouping, raster decisions, and per-region acceptance conditions.
4. Create the document with create_document at the reference's aspect ratio. Work in artboard-web coordinates: (0,0) is the artboard's top-left and Y increases downward.

Record unreadable text and obscured boundaries as explicit ambiguities. Never invent content.

Naming is not cosmetic

Every object's name is its semantic identity — the auditor reports findings by name, connectors bind by name, and corrections address objects by name.

• Give every object a stable, unique semantic name. Duplicates are a hard failure (duplicate-semantic-name).
• Name repeated series panel-1, panel-2, panel-3. The auditor infers the series axis from the names and checks cross-axis alignment and equal spacing. A series named left, middle, right is invisible to that check.
• Set semantic_type to the object's role (box, panel, label, axis, connector, container, background). Objects typed panel/container/background are exempted from connector-intrusion checks, so a connector may legitimately cross them.