Show HN: Fig0 – 0-Manual AI Scientific Figure and Illustration Generator
Fig0 is an AI-powered tool that generates scientific figures and illustrations, streamlining the process of revising and finalizing manuscripts. It allows users to describe changes and clean up labels, producing a manuscript-ready version quickly. This technology has the potential to significantly reduce the time spent on figure revisions, as noted by Dr. Emily W, an Associate Professor at the University of Manchester.
- ▪Fig0 is an AI-powered scientific figure and illustration generator.
- ▪It can produce manuscript-ready versions quickly, reducing revision time.
- ▪Dr. Emily W. has seen significant time savings using Fig0.
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| Original publisher | Fig0 |
| Canonical URL | https://fig0.ai/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:15:19 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-17T06:50:08.693Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-17T06:50:08.693Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | kSWqn8o_Ow7m |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Small figure revisions used to take half a day. With Fig0 I can describe the change, clean up the labels, and get a manuscript-ready version before our lab meeting starts.Dr. Emily W., Associate Professor, Cell Biology - University of ManchesterDr. Emily W. Associate Professor, Cell Biology - University of Manchester
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Fig0.
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