Sequence Diagrams

Demo

sequenceDiagram
autonumber

participant ctl 
participant disp
participant cam


note right of ctl: Repeat for each pattern
loop ShowMeasure(W,R,G,B)
  ctl->>disp: draw_frame(pattern_<color>)
  activate disp
  note over ctl,disp: hold 300s
  ctl->>+cam: measure_xyz(auto_exp_init=True)
  critical 90 s
    cam->>-cam: snap(count)
  end
  deactivate disp
  note over cam: ~90s for 3x
cam->>ctl: measurement_data
end

Resources

• Mermaid Syntax Reference
• https://mermaid.ai/blog/posts/sequence-diagrams-the-good-thing-uml-brought-to-software-development
• https://jessems.com/posts/2023-07-22-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-sequence-diagrams-in-mermaidjs/
  • inspiration
• https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bierner.markdown-mermaid&ssr=false#overview
  • VS Code plugin (for VS Code <1.121)
• https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_121#_mermaid-diagrams-in-markdown-preview-and-notebooks
  • Mermaid new supported markdown preview language in VS Code 1.121!!! No more plugins required