Presentation Models and Diagrams

[Glassboy]

"Vox pox can be made to mean anything."

Regardless of what they meant, I wouldn't trust anything that any variety of pox had to say...

I'm not sure how to translate vox populi into 'stralin.  It's not covered in any of the usual primers.

[RoyC]

It's not 'stralin, it's 'stray-n.
And vox populi reduces to vox pop. Though in 'stray-n that might become 'voxa poppa, maaate'.

Anyway, I think the onus is really on the originator of a diagram - or any other form of communication - to understand what they are trying to communicate and do the best they can to make the meaning obvious. And whilst that can be very hard, the reader or viewer relies on it. Although feedback is very useful, to clarify what is not understood.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

It's not 'stralin, it's 'stray-n.
And vox populi reduces to vox pop. Though in 'stray-n that might become 'voxa poppa, maaate'.

Anyway, I think the onus is really on the originator of a diagram - or any other form of communication - to understand what they are trying to communicate and do the best they can to make the meaning obvious. And whilst that can be very hard, the reader or viewer relies on it. Although feedback is very useful, to clarify what is not understood.

Nayled it,maaate!

Paolo

[peterc]

I have used a separate (parallel) diagram and replaced all the elements with alternate images (clipart) and hidden some of the relationships where they are not relevant, as well as turning off things like showing the namespace to reduce the "clutter" (whether it is clutter depends on the use of the diagram - for presentations it is, for model understanding it may not be). While I chose clipart, they could have been shapes drawn for example in Visio and saved as a JPG (or other compatible format).

I may also have omitted a few of the objects, but in the case I am thinking of, I did retain 90+% of the original elements. Of course, if only a section of elements on the diagram is relevant then you could choose to include just those on a separate diagram.