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How to visually represent a structure?

  Like any other kind of visual representation, you will need to follow the golden rule :  use things that are patently related/similar/different to represent things that are relevantly related/similar/different First, you are going to need to represent the elements in the structure. Use itemised elements like points, geometric figures, letters, etc. This will be your terminal vocabulary, so to speak, corresponding to what Greenberg calls the first order  elements of the system and thus can be as iconic or symbolic as desired. Then you are going to need how to represent their properties and relations. The mechanisms you can use to represent them are of two types: intrinsic and extrinsic. Intrinsic [I was very tempted to call them Leibnizian but I think the reference may be too obscure for many. It’s a shame]: You can exploit similarities , relations and differences in the way you have decided to represent the elements in the structure to represent similarities, relations and diffe