The phrase "a picture based on" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing an image that is inspired by or derived from a particular source, such as a story, event, or concept.
Example: "The artist created a picture based on the famous novel, capturing its essence in a single frame."
Alternatives: "an image inspired by" or "a depiction derived from".
Initially it was estimated that the nanomotor operates at 100% efficiency1,2,3,4 — a picture based on several idealized assumptions, including that the viscosity of the milieu surrounding the motor is that of bulk water5,6,7,8,9, thus, paying no attention to viscosity gradients near surfaces10.
"But now we're building up a picture based on data from every drill hole.
It's a picture based on the last 24 hours in the life a young black man fatally shot by a white police officer in California in 2009.
Whale argued that the same sort of audiences who went to horror films also went to mystery films and pointed to the hit Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Thin Man as evidence that a picture based on the novel would be a success.
In each, a square picture based on a famous painting has a narrow panorama attached below like the predella of a medieval altarpiece.
Invited to help create a screenplay for a motion picture based on the stories (released in 1956), she subsequently recounted her Hollywood experience in To See the Dream (1957).
The spectratyping analysis of the TCR repertoire provides a global picture based on a reduced number of cells, and helps determining the complexity and stability of a T cell repertoire in response to an antigenic stimulus, but it only provides a qualitative description of the T-cell mediated immune response raised against a particular antigen.
The objective of this analysis is to present a unified picture based on a pondered evaluation of the specificities of the selected data sets.
And it had a misfire this year with "Watchmen," an expensive picture based on a graphic novel, of which Legendary was co-financer.
For "Keds," a 1962 picture based on an advertisement for Sears, Roebuck & Company, Lichtenstein gave greater emphasis to the geometric pattern on the sole of the sneaker.
In 1957, Nelson Gidding, who would return to the subject of the Hindenburg some 20 years later, wrote an unpublished "treatment" for a motion picture based on the deliberate destruction of the airship.
