Wouldn't it be interesting to see a knowledge graph version of Da Vinci's notebooks where ideas, trains of thought, work sketches, etc., can be traced through his entire corpus?
E.g., show on a timeline all drawing and writing on the Sforza monument + related material.
"Show me all his thinking on hydraulics over time, with connections to material which influenced this research."
For example, connections between water turbulence and hair, between waves and sound and light, hydraulic engineering schemes, etc.
"Show me all the notes and sketches for the lost Leda and the Swan with related material on braids, knots, spiral leaf forms, water turbulence, geological links to his cosmological conception of Earth as a Gaia-like entity, his Alpine expeditions & research into fossils."
We could call it: The Da Vinci Codex. 😁
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Implication: to reduce the complexity and breakability of your logic, produce better-defined data-structures which reduce the need for complex and error-prone operations.
Graph-as-infrastructure
versus
Graph-as-diagram (diagraph?)
What if part of the problem is that we conflate graph structure (a -[r]-> b) with the visualisation of the graph? Sometimes these are do match but other times we need distance from the structure in order to model diagrammatically. We could mix graph + SVG shapes + text.
We could think of graph-as-diagram as separation of concerns from the graph structure itself ...