A Stock can carry a display unit (°C, people, $, …): a new optional field, an
inspector text input, validation + round-trip in io, and a readout beside the
live value on the canvas. Equip the demonstrative samples (Water L, Balance $,
Coffee °C, Population/Epidemic people, Yeast cells). Also bumps the fill gauge
opacity for a more vivid level.
Recast the S-curve as a Reinforcing inflow plus a crowding-driven die-off that
grows with Yeast², using only the existing proportional rule. Yeast now climbs
20 → ~1000 as a true sigmoid, and the detector still classifies it R + B — the
balancing loop stays visible, which a single "logistic" rule would have hidden.
Drops the carrying-capacity converter (a faithful one needs a divide rule).
Give 10 of 11 samples initial values, rules, and a run window so they simulate
on load: Bathtub (linear), Savings/Escalation/Fixes-that-fail (Reinforcing),
Coffee (Balancing), Population, Epidemic (SIR), Tragedy (overshoot/collapse),
Drift (eroding goal), Predator-prey (damped). Limits to growth is left
diagram-only — its S-curve needs a saturating rule the vocabulary lacks.
Phase 2 brings Models to life. ADR-0004: behaviour comes from a small fixed
vocabulary of rules (Constant / Proportional / Gap) read over the inbound
Information Links, not free-form formulas — valid by construction.
- types: Rule union, SimSpec, initialValue; replaces the unused equation field
- simulation: forward-Euler engine, dependency-ordered evaluation, algebraic-loop
detection, non-negative stocks, and a divergence guard
- io: validate and round-trip the new fields (F8)
Vue Flow's open arrow renders at 0.625x the edge stroke (its 20-unit
viewBox is squeezed into a 12.5 marker box), so the chevron looked thin
against the 2.5px pipe. A marker strokeWidth of 20/12.5 cancels the
downscale, drawing the head at the line's weight at any width.
Rename the coffee outflow "heat loss" to "cooling" so the balancing loop
reads more naturally, and stack carrying capacity above the source in
limits to growth so its link to crowding is a clean horizontal hop.
Swap the filled-triangle arrowhead for an open arrow on flow pipes and
information links, and route flow pipes through a custom cubic edge whose
horizontal flatten arm scales with the vertical drop, not just the
horizontal gap. Vue Flow's default arm collapses toward zero when the
valve sits nearly above the stock, so a steep pipe stayed flat only in
its last pixels and the arrowhead detached from the visible line. The
pipe now keeps a real horizontal run into the stock's left edge at any
approach angle.
Snap all sample coordinates to multiples of 20 so they sit on the
editor grid and read cleanly. Computed midpoint() valves had to land
on grid points too, so a few endpoints were nudged (e.g. escalation
arsenals 300->280, limits-to-growth source -300->-280). Population is
re-laid as a grid cascade so its links no longer overlap the pipes.
Two more Meadows system traps: Fixes that fail (a balancing
road-building fix whose induced-driving side effect reinforces the
congestion it targets) and Drift to low performance (an eroding goal
that spirals actual performance and the standard downward).
Also re-lays-out the coupled-stock samples for readability: predator
and prey and escalation now use aligned two-row layouts, and fixes
that fail stacks its flow valves in one column so the backfire link
reads as a clean vertical.
Add a second tier past the four-model primer: Limits to growth, Predator
and prey, and Epidemic each introduce one structure the primer never
shows, plus two of Donella Meadows' system traps — Tragedy of the
commons and Escalation — to contrast healthy dynamics.
Loops are derived from the wiring, never stored (ADR-0001): a signed
graph (link polarities plus flows' inherent inflow/outflow) is searched
with Tarjan SCC and a capped enumeration, classifying each cycle R or B
by the parity of its negative links. Both the result count and the
search are bounded so detection can never blow the frame budget.
