graph TD;
A-->B;
A-->C;
B-->D;
C-->D;
D-->A;
Music lovers of my generation remember that phrase at the lyrics of a song by the group Bread. The phrase is one of those constructive memes that my colleague, Karen Adolph and I have extended to highlight the even more informative power of video–10,000 pictures!
This post doesn’t feature any video. But it does demonstrate a new tool embedded within Quarto that I expect to make use of frequently, scriptable diagrams using Mermaid and Graphviz.
Here’s a simple one using Mermaid lightly modified from the project site.
And here’s a second one, closer to my heart, with some formatting:
flowchart TD
N[Nervous system] --> B(Body)
B --> W{World}
W --> B
B --> N
N --> N
B --> B
W --> W
I sketch graphs like this all the time, so having support for tools like Mermaid and Graphviz built-in to Quarto should help me depict my ideas, at least some of them, in fewer words.
Of course, now I need to learn more about Mermaid (and refresh my memory about Graphviz).