Scientific Visualization Build figures that preserve scientific meaning before optimizing appearance. Separate universal principles from dated publisher rules, preserve raw data and transformations, use color redundantly, and inspect delivered files rather than trusting plotting defaults. Non-negotiable guardrails - Never alter, hide, invent, or selectively enhance data to improve a figure. - Preserve raw tables/images, exclusions, missing-value codes, analysis code, normalization, binning, image adjustments, and random seeds. - Do not infer journal requirements. Identify the exact journal, a…