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A specifiction for expressing technical image metadata, with an emphasis on accessibility of data visualizations
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Representing Containment #22

Open shepazu opened 3 months ago

shepazu commented 3 months ago

Note: this context for this issue is in #18.

Reference image: E006-Plant_Cell_Structure-experimental.svg (experimental)

While for the most part, this diagram is unstructured, it does have one significant structural component: containment. Some graphical elements contain others, like the vacuole contains the crystals, or the nucleus contains the nucleolus; others are instances of another type of thing, like amyloplasts are a kind of leucoplast. This is a common feature even of unstructured graphics, so I modeled this a bit in the graphic.

I’m not convinced we should have this, but it might make things like announcement-chaining, drill-down exploration, or relationships easier to model.