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Dia Living Systems Theory Shapes
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Additional shapes that can be added to the Dia toolbox. Extract the files to your .dia folder and restart Dia.
This is a series of shapes based on Living Systems Theory by James Grier Miller.
It is a comprehensive set of subsystems that can document any living or nonliving system. Due to the property of "shred-out" each subsystem can then be analyzed in the same way, and utilize the same subsystems.
It is possible to document systems like web servers in LST, but the majority of this documentation will be as useful as the amount of detail included. Storing variables in each shape is the next intended feature.
The shapes are licensed under the terms of the GPL.
lst.zip - Living Systems Theory shapes by Ian Smith.
Shape list
The following shapes are included in the package:
 | Associator Subsystem |
 | Channel Network Subsystem |
 | Converter Subsystem |
 | Supporter Subsystem |
 | Decider Subsystem |
 | Decoder |
 | Decoder |
 | Distributor Subsystem |
 | Extruder Subsystem |
 | Ingestor Subsystem |
 | Internal Transducer Subsystem |
 | Input Transducer Subsystem |
 | Memory Subsystem |
 | ME Storage Subsystem |
 | Motor Subsystem |
 | Output Transducer Subsystem |
 | Producer Subsystem |
 | Reproducer Subsystem |
 | Encoder |
 | Encoder Subsystem |
 | Timer |
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