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flow family

flow-diagram

Arrows showing system flow without proportional volume — usually should_be_kind=diagram.

Illustrative diagrams with arrows of equal weight. Often misclassified as sankey or chart by extractors. Pure flow narrative without quantitative encoding.

When to use

Explaining how a system works (process flows, organisational diagrams, system architecture).

When NOT to use

You have flow volumes (use sankey).

Rhetorical roles

  • system-explain
  • flow

Variants & related

Required primitives

  • has_data_labels

Optional primitives

  • has_title

Common anti-patterns

  • chart-vs-diagram-misclassification
  • illustrative-without-disclosure

Disambiguation rules

  • Arrows are uniform width / illustrative — not proportional to a quantity.
  • Often should_be_kind=diagram, NOT chart. The extractor frequently mislabels these.