Diagramming methods for the ADEPT LION Pattern Language

Each shape on the diagram represents an ADEPT LION occasion.  The rounded rectangle is the standard shape used in a Rivulet Diagram.

An occasion shape may have up to three labels depending on how many of the three ADEPT LION considerations need to be indicated in the diagram.  Any ADEPT LION ontological construct may serve as a label depending on the desired degree of specificity required for the indicated pattern.

• Pools (A, D, E, P) and the translation nature (T) are the most general construct that can serve as channel inputs.
• Currents include an indication of pool and depth (M, S, O) to make the deterministic effect of a channel input explicit.
• Rivulets include an indication of pool, depth and nature to make the basis for the iterative potential of a channel input explicit.
• Trickles indicate the highest level of specificity for a potential channel input in a Rivulet Diagram.

The lines may be labeled with a channel's name [thing] or abbreviation [t] or the following arrowhead types.

• hollow square arrowhead - thing channel [t]
• hollow round arrowhead - use channel [u]
• hollow pointed arrowhead - word channel [w]
• solid triangular arrowhead - variety channel [v]
• solid square arrowhead - subject channel [x]
• solid round arrowhead - object channel [y]
• solid pointed arrowhead - source channel [z]

When it is important to distinguish between determinate manifest depth occasions, indeterminate shadow depth occasions and non-determinate obscure depth occasions dashed lines can be used.

• Solid line - manifest depth occasion or channel input.
• Dashed line - shadow depth occasion or channel input.
• Dotted line - obscure depth occasion or channel input

The Rivulet Diagram shown here is for the MEH\\ trickle which is given focus by the use of a larger rounded rectangle at the center.  The requirements of the MEH\\ pattern only pertain to the first consideration so only the possible inputs for the thing, use and word channels need to be displayed to explain this label.

• The word channel input must come from a manifest translation but the pool is not important so the label of "MT" indicates a "manifest translation surface" because that is the construct that best expresses the minimum requirement for the word channel input which is displayed with a determinate solid line and a hollow pointed arrowhead.
• The thing and use channel inputs must be indeterminate entities and they must be two distinct occasions.  Therefore the diagram includes two dashed shapes supplying respectively the thing channel (hollow square arrowhead) and the use channel (hollow circle arrowhead).  The dashed lines correspond to the labels of "SE" indicating that these  are of the "shadow entity current". 
• The result of these inputs for the MEH\\ is itself of "manifest depth" so the large rounded rectangle is given a solid line.  The additional narrative of "Definite Phenomenon" is entirely optional but helpful in the context that this Rivulet Diagram would be used to display the pattern requirements of the trickle having this name.

Each shape on the diagram represents an ADEPT LION occasion.  The circle is the standard shape used in a Braid Diagram to help distinguish it from the rounded rectangles of the Rivulet Diagram.

Labeling will be much the same as for the Rivulet Diagram.  A common need with the braid diagram is to assign variables to the occasions of the pattern in order to perform an algebraic interpretation.

• lowercase Greek letters are used for indeterminate (shadow depth) occasion variables.
• uppercase Roman letters are used for determinate (manifest depth) occasion variables.

In addition to the line and arrowhead types of the Rivulet Diagram described above, the Braid diagram introduces a directed arrow with a broad, solid arrowhead to indicate a relation (commonly a limitation or as in this example a definite phenomenon) in which the "tail" of the arrow connects to the thing channel input and the "head" of the arrow connects to the use channel input. 

When it is important to distinguish between determinate manifest depth occasions, indeterminate shadow depth occasions and non-determinate obscure depth occasions dashed lines can be used.

• Solid line - manifest depth occasion or channel input.
• Dashed line - shadow depth occasion or channel input.
• Dotted line - obscure depth occasion or channel input

The Braid Diagram here is also for the MEH\\ trickle pattern as in the Rivulet Diagram example previously.  .

• The word channel input must come from a manifest translation and this requirement is now conveyed by the solid-line arrow connection and the word channel input is now implied.  The "MEH\\" label is given to the new line which now takes the place of the large central rounded rectangle in the Rivulet Diagram.  This label is optional in the sense that it could be entirely deduced from the diagram itself.  Because it is a manifest depth occasion, its variable "A" is an uppercase Roman letter.
• The thing and use channel inputs from "shadow entities" are the same as in the Rivulet Diagram but now the labels for these dashed-line shapes also include lowercase Greek letters that can be used as references in an algebraic interpretation (not shown) of this diagram.

The purpose of a Frame-Region Diagram is to visualize limitation which is the primary logical relation for pattern logic and the basis for many more complex patterns.

A Frame-Region diagram will often follow from a Rivulet or Braid Diagram and will carry over the variables indicated in those accompanying other diagrams.

An indeterminate occasion is represented as a circle "region" and a determinate occasion is represented by a square "region" (not used in the example here).  The "frame" is the outermost rectangle which can be thought of as the "universe of discourse" or the context for the elements of the diagram.

When one shape contains another shape entirely then this is a representation of the relation of limitation existing between those two occasions.  This is the same as how an Euler Diagram might be used to show inclusion of an element within a set of elements. In this case the "included element" is the occasion providing the thing channel input and the "including set of elements" is the occasion providing the use channel input to the limitation relation.

The Frame-Region Diagram shown here is still another representation of the MEH\\ definite trickle which has been labeled with the uppercase Roman letter "A" and consists in the predication of shadow entity beta by shadow entity gamma.  The letter "A" is placed overlapping the circle representing beta to demonstrate only that it is associated with the containment of the beta circle within the gamma circle.