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When Papers Learn to Draw: AutoFigure and the End of Ugly Science Diagrams

A diagram is often where a paper stops being private reasoning and becomes public knowledge. Before that point, the author may have a method, a theorem, a pipeline, or a system architecture. The reader has only paragraphs. Then one good figure appears, and the fog lifts. The method has stages. The variables have roles. The arrows tell us what depends on what. The paper becomes less of a swamp. ...

February 4, 2026 · 15 min · Zelina
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From Text to Motion: How Manimator Turns Dense Papers into Dynamic Learning

TL;DR for operators Manimator is best understood as a content-production pipeline, not as a magical professor trapped inside a video renderer. The system takes a prompt, PDF, or arXiv ID, asks an LLM to turn it into a structured scene plan, asks a code-focused LLM to generate Manim Python, and then renders the result into an explanatory animation.1 ...

July 22, 2025 · 16 min · Zelina