Visuals

Ideas that needed another form.

Diagrams, maps and studies made when words were the wrong container.

Each visual belongs to a specific idea, build or room documented on this site.

Why it exists

Some systems are only legible once you can see the whole shape at once.

This page keeps those attempts, including the ones that did not clarify anything.

A diagram should remove a paragraph, not decorate one.

Evidence beats decoration.

What they illustrate:

If I need a legend to explain the diagram, the thinking underneath is not finished.

Hand-drawn usually beats polished for anything still moving.

Visuals are published alongside the idea they belong to rather than as a gallery.

Reuse them with attribution.

Fact: No visual on this site is generated stock imagery.

Interpretation: The diagrams that helped most were made in under five minutes.

Experiment: Publishing the rough versions.

Ambition: One map of the whole system that actually holds.

Last reviewed: September 2026.

If one of these made something click, tell me which part.