Diagram

Diagrams are pictorial representations of ideas. It associate semantic meanings to graphical artifacts.

Useful reading materials

There are some books on that directly relates to this concept:

• Diagrammatic Reasoning:Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
• Picturing Quantum Processes

On PKC, one may use simple textual data to generate diagrams, using the Diagrams extension.

Sample Diagrams

The Diagrams package supports at least two flavors of diagrams

GraphViz

<graphviz renderer="neato" caption="Graph for example no. 2"> graph example2 {

 run -- intr;
 intr -- runbl;
 runbl -- run;
 run -- kernel;
 kernel -- zombie;
 kernel -- sleep;
 kernel -- runmem;
 sleep -- swap;
 swap -- runswap;
 runswap -- new;
 runswap -- runmem;
 new -- runmem;
 sleep -- runmem;

} </graphviz>

UML

<uml> Alice -> Bob: Authentication Request Bob --> Alice: Authentication Response </uml>

References

Related Pages

• Category Theory
• Meta physics
• Quantum physics