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by Terretta 16 days ago
What does Mermaid text description of an image mean?

Descriptions of images that are charts or diagrams to start with?

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Most diagrams I come across are basically boxes and arrows which are representable with mermaid flow charts without losing information. The layout of the mermaid will usually look differently, but that is not typically what matters. ChatGPT is quite good in creating mermaid flow charts from random box and arrow diagram images.
Which cheap vision model would you recommend for ingesting category diagrams and producing mermaid facsimiles?
I haven't yet tried to solve this at any scale. So my models are ChatGPT (plus) in the browser, or Sonnet/Opus 4.x in Zoo Code.