Figures in the paper

[Shujun-He]

Hi Xinyi,

This is really great work. I just wonder what you use to make high quality figures such as Fig 1 in your paper?

Thanks, Shujun

[XinyiYing]

Hi Shujun, We mainly use "Microsoft Visio" and "Microsoft PowerPoint" to make Fig. 1 in my paper. To be specific, we use "Microsoft Visio" to make the arrows and texts. Some readers wonder how we make the cubes of different colors, we use "Microsoft PowerPoint" to make them and paste them into "Microsoft Visio". In details, first, we use the basic shape function in "Microsoft PowerPoint" to make one cube. You can change the size and the color of the cube as you wish. Then we copy the cube for 27 times and combine these small cubes into a large cube according to their spatial positions. Finally, to reach the same effect in Fig. 1, you can make more small cubes with different color and distribute them around the large cube to make the deformation effect, just the same as the left-lower corner of Fig. 1. To make the offsets cube, you just need to change the color of every small cube to reach the same effect. If you have any question, please contact us at [email protected]. If you wish, we are willing to send the *.vsd and *.pptx material to you.

[Shujun-He]

Thank you for your response! I was not aware microsoft office has a program to make vector graphics, so I will definitely be trying that out!