Darwin's On the Origin of Species only contains one diagram, a branching tree diagram which shows divergence of species.

Greg McInerny of Microsoft Research and Stefanie Posavek created a version of Darwin's On the Origin of Species that displayed variations between the editions as a branching tree diagram, a nod to the only diagram which appeared in Darwin's original work. .

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo63098990.html Lines of Thought: Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind by Ayelet Even-Ezra

Mentioned during Tinderbox Meetup: https://forum.eastgate.com/t/tagging-meetup-saturday-august-7/4841

They apparently discussed the book last week. (May be able to find the video of the discussion)

Diagrams as Code 2.0 • Simon Brown • GOTO 2021

"long-lived documentation" - "Think about diagrams as 'disposable' artifacts"

https://c4model.com/ C4 Model - model for visualizing software architecture; hierarchal dataset; Diagrams as abstractions, differing levels of technical details; think of it as zooming into maps at different levels * Level 1: Context * Level 2: Containers * Level 3: Components * Level 4: Code

Product Comparisions - Working with the DSL (Lite v. CLI v. DSL Editor): https://structurizr.com/help/dsl - Product offerings (Lite v. Cloud v. On-premise): https://structurizr.com/products

The DSL is rendering tool agnostic

Diagrams as code 1.0 - PlantUML, Mermaild, etc are input formats

Diagrams as code 2.0 - PlantUML, Mermaild, etc are output formats

Checkout: - Online REPL: https://structurizr.com/dsl?example=amazon-web-services - DSL Guidance: https://github.com/structurizr/dsl/tree/master/docs/cookbook - Examples: https://github.com/structurizr/examples

Git Graph (Experimental)

Git graphs are a way to visualize your Git project commits, merges, and progress.

mermaid gitGraph: options { "nodeSpacing": 150, "nodeRadius": 10 } end commit branch newbranch checkout newbranch commit commit checkout master commit commit merge newbranch

```mermaid
graph TD;
    A-->B;
    A-->C;
    B-->D;
    C-->D;

```

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>@vaultofculture</span> in Vault of Culture on Twitter: "@ChrisAldrich @gipperfish @jdconnor @AnneGanzert See also the work of Manuel Lima (@mslima), in particular The Book of Trees: https://t.co/30jJu1xOrY" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>08/08/2021 15:43:42</time>)</cite></small>

Ha!

This is also a great exercise for readers and learners. If the book doesn't do this for you already, spend some time to annotate it or do it yourself.

[[Diagrams]]

"a picture is worth a thousand words" what's in this statement?

a picture doesn't equal a thousand words, but its exchange value is roughly equivalent to a thousand words

similar to a diagram, are images a-signifying? their nature is fundamentally reproductive. if we believe Benjamin's logic, "aura" is lost in reproductions. what this means in practice is that reproductions necessarily cannot reproduce their object of focus. an idea supporting this is derrida's Differance, which identifies a hidden expanse of networked ideas that give meaning to a sign through context and recursive thought

so if a picture is worth a thousand words, it's because an image can't reproduce a thousand words 1:1 (so the image's signification is immanently constrained), but its use value is roughly equal because those thousand words are invoked in the Differance of the image, in other words, the ideology of the viewer.

This feels like a minor breakthrough in my understanding of how image and ideology relate. Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thought comes to mean that images can be categorically defined as visual ideologies.

https://cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall16/CSCI-GA.2965-001/voronoi_gravitational.html

diagrams of vining roses like rambling sentence diagrams

Design and draw using simple character sets. Save to git or other version control. Hattip to @paulozoom.