🧠 MindMap: A Collaborative Repository of Research Idea Diagrams

"One diagram is worth a thousand words."

📖 中文版本请见：README_zh.md

📌 MindMap is a collaborative academic repository for collecting and organizing research idea diagrams, article summary sketches, and visual concept maps from multiple contributors. These visual artifacts serve as structured blueprints for understanding complex papers, designing new ideas, and accelerating literature digestion.

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📁 Repository Structure

MindMap/ 
├── shared/ # Publicly shared diagrams and slides 
│ └── PPT/ 
│ └── DeepLearningBasicComponents.pptx 
├── zhli/ # Personal folder for user "zhli" 
│ └── PPT/ 
│ ├── Templates/ 
│ └── FrameworkTemplates.pptx

• Each collaborator maintains their own folder: yourname/
• Shared resources are placed in the shared/ directory.
• Use PowerPoint (.pptx) or image formats (.png, .svg, .pdf) for diagrams.
• All diagrams should include paper references or brief context when possible.

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✍️ Contribution Guidelines

✅ What to include:

• Flowcharts, conceptual mindmaps, and framework overviews from research papers.
• Annotated visualizations created during paper reading.
• Templates for visualizing methods (e.g., VLM, NeRF, GAN, etc.).
• Domain-specific tools or slides that aid academic work.

📐 Naming convention:

• Use clear, concise filenames like TransformerOverview.pptx or NeRF_ArchitectureFlow.png.
• For personal folders: yourname/PPT/ or yourname/Tools/.

🧾 Documentation:

• For each figure or template, consider adding a short .md description or comment in the PPT itself to explain its source and purpose.

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🔧 Tools & Extensions

🛠️ Useful diagramming tools and academic visual styles:

• draw.io
• LaTeX TikZ templates
• PowerPoint academic slide kits
• [Matplotlib/Sankey/Graphviz code snippets for diagrams]

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Collaboration Goals

This repository aims to:

• 💡 Accelerate idea generation by making prior sketches accessible.
• 📚 Encourage knowledge sharing from literature readings.
• 🧭 Standardize visual communication across teams or research groups.
• 🧱 Lower barriers to paper understanding for junior researchers.

Whether it's from your lab presentation, a paper club, or your own brainstorms — your diagrams matter. Share them here!

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📬 Contact & Acknowledgments

Questions or suggestions? Feel free to open an issue or start a discussion!

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⭐ Star if Useful

If you find this repository helpful, consider giving it a ⭐ to support this academic knowledge-sharing initiative!