Diagrams

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Simplicity matters, that’s why a picture is worth a thousand words.

Here are some tools written in Python or just open source, that will help to make your ideas and architecture accessible to the rest of the world.

  • Asciiflow - online editor for Ascii diagrams (Java, GWT + GAE, BSD)

  • blockdiag - diagram images enerator by Takeshi Komiya (Python, Apache 2.0)

You can also draw ASCII diagrams by hand using Far Manager (Windows, BSD):

  1. Shift-F4, open or create new file

  2. F11, call plugin menu

  3. D, use Draw lines plugin

  4. Shift-Arrows to draw lines and boxes

  5. F1, if you’re lost