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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.