Mermaid VS GraphvizOnline

Mermaid JS is a tool that lets you create diagrams and charts such as flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts using simple text commands. It works by converting your text commands into a graphical representation that you can customize and share. https://mermaid.live/

I'm not OP, but I just ask GPT to turn code or process or whatever else into a mermaid diagram. Most of the time I don't even need to few-shot prompt it with examples. Then you dump the resulting text into something like https://mermaid.live/ and voilà.

I like excalidraw for live discussions but if I want to make more detailed or better looking diagrams, I really enjoy these two tools:

- For drag-and-drop/WYSIWYG, I really like DrawIO. They have a web version https://app.diagrams.net/ but I strongly recommend the desktop version https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releases/

- For text-as-diagram, I think Mermaid wins this by default since GitHub added markdown support for these: https://mermaid.live/ (This was github's announcement https://github.blog/2022-02-14-include-diagrams-markdown-fil... )

After hours without being able to solve this problem, I decided to make the chart directly in Mermaid's live editor and export it to PNG and SVG. The big problem is that the letters are still too small, the quality of the PNG is very low, and the SVG only works on the web, not with other applications like PowerPoint and Inkscape.

You can export to PNG and other formats in the Mermaid editor https://mermaid.live/

Copy paste code here: https://mermaid.live

(paste it into https://dreampuf.github.io/GraphvizOnline to see a visual representation)

Where task 1 diverges, you can run task2 and task3 in parallel, because they don't depend on eachother's outputs. Then you need to join task4 and task5 to task6.

My email is in my profile, I'd love to chat about your thoughts on what futuristic software means to you. For me it means futuristic interactions with computers, alternative approaches to programming.

You can view this file with the Graphviz binary or an online tool like Graphviz Viewer.

You can copy and paste this DOT graph code into an online graph visualization tool like GraphvizOnline to see the visual representation of the code flow.

You can ask gpt to output as (mermaid / graphvis digraph) format via a code block. Then view inside a valid viewer like https://mermaid.live or https://dreampuf.github.io/GraphvizOnline

Visualization was made by me using GraphVIZ, and rendered using dot. You can see the source here, and you can mess around with it by plugging the source into this handy website. You can remove factions you don't care about, or update to fit the fiction in your game..

After moving through the new Graph, is_cyclic, and prune you get to the real meat and potatoes: shortest unweighted, shortest weighted, and max flow. In the following I want to discuss some representation/visualization (shoutout Graphviz).

https://dreampuf.github.io/GraphvizOnline/ for making a basic figure.

Note: - Tools used Graphbiz and dot language: https://dreampuf.github.io/GraphvizOnline - Source: https://satisfactory.fandom.com - Recipes used are the best based on a resource-weighted analysis (Weighted Point is the weighted consumption rate which is calculated by: (resource consumption rate / maximum extraction rate) * 10,000. The lower the better. ) - Some numbers have been simplified i.e. 8.8888 to 9 to simplify other calculations. - Energy and its resource needs are not included