a system with appetites

A whole system drawn as one creature with intake, sized by what it consumes. Each thing it eats gets a mouth, and mouth width follows the real quantity, so the drawing still carries the numbers. This is the sub-mode that keeps the most information, because an appetite is a magnitude and can be drawn to scale without inventing anything.

A whole system drawn as one creature with intake, sized by what it consumes. Each thing it eats gets a mouth, and mouth width follows the real quantity, so the drawing still carries the numbers. This is the sub-mode that keeps the most information, because an appetite is a magnitude and can be drawn to scale without inventing anything.

Example

Best when a slow accumulation has no single moment to point at and the quantities differ enough that scale matters.