Visual and data credits
The showcase uses real Flux compositions: authored scientific figures, public datasets and calculated examples. This page identifies their sources and what the views represent.
The figures and screenshots
The materials and neuroscience figures were composed by Kort Driessen in a demonstration project. Their plot content, layout, labels and views are preserved. Captions and the demonstration manuscript were written for this site. Screenshots show the actual Flux interface using an isolated copy of the selected work; the Slides workspace screenshot shows the slides from the film.
The Library and Reader screenshots use a small demonstration bibliography and an original manuscript; they do not show a personal reference library.
Timeline alignment diagrams use Flux’s alignment operations to calculate the bar positions on a small geometric example. Close-ups show the real X-ray, property menu and Animator; the easing editor and animation-style screenshots come from Flux’s own user guide.
Slides
The live slides on the homepage and in the guides are the slides from the Flux film. They were made in Flux, in the same demonstration project. They are exported unchanged and play through Flux’s own slide player. Each player names its source below the slide. Motion between resting steps is visual interpolation; the values shown at rest are the computed ones.
| Slide | Source and interpretation |
|---|---|
| Any figure can become a slide | The Flux mark, plotted, and shapes drawn in Flux. |
| Shapes that change shape | Computed geometry: a superquadric (sphere, cube and star states) and the catenoid–helicoid family of minimal surfaces. |
| Visual response latency across brain regions | Region outlines from a coronal section of the Allen Mouse Common Coordinate Framework, CCF2017. The latency values are synthetic and illustrative, not recordings. |
| The fold becomes a fingerprint | C-alpha coordinates of crambin, PDB 1CRN. A contact is a C-alpha distance below 8 Å with sequence separation above 2. The motion is a change of representation, not protein unfolding. |
| From genes to programs | Airway RNA-seq, GEO GSE52778 (Himes et al. 2014, doi:10.1371/airway package. The 36 most variable genes are clustered into three descriptive groups, not validated pathways. |
| Agreement, revealed | First and second systolic blood-pressure readings from NHANES 2017–2018: a deterministic sample of 240 complete pairs. Descriptive and unweighted; not a population estimate. |
| Central limit theorem | Simulated samples from a Gamma(2, 0.5) population. |
| Spikes to rate | Simulated spike trains from an inhomogeneous Poisson process; no recording is implied. |
| Spatial transcriptomics | Simulated expression on a Visium-style hexagonal spot grid, embedded with PCA and UMAP. |
| Phyllotaxis | Vogel’s model: radius = c√n, angle = n × 137.5°, for 233 seeds. Spiral counts depend on scale. |
| Shadows contain a shape | Exact parallel-beam projections of three uniform disks at twelve angles. The final image is an unfiltered backprojection, so its blur is expected. |
The 3D slide needs WebGL; without it, the player shows Flux’s own saved views of each step.
Neuroscience
Data and anatomical models: Allen Institute for Brain Science. The response plots use Allen Brain Observatory Visual Coding experiment 501940850, container 511510688: 143 cells in mouse lateral visual cortex (VISl), with eight drift directions and five temporal frequencies. The source analysis file provides the response arrays used by the demonstration analyses.
The brain geometry and coronal view use the Allen Mouse Common Coordinate Framework, CCF2017. Neuronal silhouettes and the small mesh reconstruction use MICrONS reconstructions. These anatomical examples are separate from the functionally recorded cells.
The circular network connects similar response profiles; it is not a map of anatomical synapses.
Relevant publications:
- de Vries et al. (2020), A large-scale standardized physiological survey reveals functional organization of the mouse visual cortex.
- Wang et al. (2020), The Allen Mouse Brain Common Coordinate Framework: A 3D Reference Atlas.
- MICrONS Consortium (2025), Functional connectomics spanning multiple areas of mouse visual cortex.
Allen resources retain the Allen Institute terms and citation policy. MICrONS resources retain the terms linked by the source project. The website’s software license does not relicense these datasets. No endorsement by the data providers is implied.
Materials and electronic structure
The materials plate combines several kinds of information:
| View | Source and interpretation |
|---|---|
| Stiffness–density chart | Typical material values entered by hand, with hand-fitted family envelopes; a reference illustration. |
| Bracket stress field | A finite-element calculation using Gmsh and scikit-fem. |
| Stress around a circular hole | The analytic Kirsch solution, with stress concentration factor 3. |
| MgB₂ Fermi surface and sections | The mgb2_vfz.frmsf example from FermiSurfer. |
| Density of states | An illustrative model calculation. |
| Crystal structures | Public crystallographic records listed below. |
Crystal models use the Crystallography Open Database: CaTiO₃, 1000022, YBa₂Cu₃O₇, 1001452, NaCl, 9000629, and silicon, 9011998. Their original publication citations are included in the linked records; COD data are available under CC0.
FermiSurfer: M. Kawamura (2019), Fermi-surface viewer providing multiple representation schemes. The demonstration renders derived geometry and sections from the example input; it does not redistribute the original input dataset as a download.
Fonts, colours and software
Flux supplies the phyllotaxis mark, the real application UI and the native slide player. The website uses Georgia and Gelasio, a warm paper palette and quiet blue controls. The palettes and colormaps in fluxplot retain their upstream notices in the fluxplot repository. Bundled player dependency notices accompany the website assets.