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How to adapt a bundled example into your own biology figure with Anima

Copy the closest example folder, change its biology and rebuild standalone pages.

  • Research
  • Advanced
  • 1 hour
  • From the README
  • Any agent

Who it is forA developer or science illustrator who needs a figure for a subject the gallery does not cover and wants to reuse the drawing kit.

The problemDrawing an isometric biology figure from nothing takes long, and the kit's primitives are easy to misuse without a working example.

The outcomeA new example folder with its own build.mjs that writes dark and light standalone HTML pages from the kit's blob, branch and chemistry primitives.

What you need first

  • Claude Code installed
  • Node.js 20.10 or later
  • Chrome or Chromium for the capture and verification scripts
  • ffmpeg only if you use scripts/make-demo.mjs

Steps

  1. Run git clone https://github.com/Garinmckayl/anima and cd anima. (inferred, check the README)
  2. Pick the example closest to your subject, such as examples/dopamine-receptors.
  3. Copy that folder, then edit its build.mjs to change the biology while keeping the imports from kit/.
  4. Run node examples/dopamine-receptors/build.mjs and then node examples/dopamine-receptors/build.mjs --light, using your new folder path.
  5. Open the generated pages and check the sources block and the simplifications list.

Prompt for your agent

In the Garinmckayl/anima repo, copy examples/<closest-example> to examples/<new-subject> and change its build.mjs to draw <new biology subject>, importing only from kit/. Run node on the new build.mjs in dark and light mode. Expected output: two standalone HTML pages. Verify that the new page includes a sources block with a link for each number and an educational-not-medical-advice note.

Caveat. The repo states that biology varies between species, tissues and individuals, so every new figure needs its own cited sources before it is shared.

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