All the current products anchor their surface data in triangles, and allow different types of visualizations to happen. For instance, you can choose to show major and minor contours as needed, and they do not change the way the triangles actually are.
Contours allow settings to vary the intervals, but flow arrow displays are constrained to one arrow per triangle, which loses meaning quickly depending on the scale we have.
Given that, I will like to see if we can add another feature under flow arrows so that they have a "density" parameter that allows a more curated way of displaying flow arrows without losing accuracy in the model itself, while informing the users or reader or plans about the site's characteristics.
This can also be combined with this (https://openrail.ideas.aha.io/ideas/BCI-I-1838) such that the level of detail display automatically adjust properly based on the level of zoom of a particular viewport. Something similar to how ESRI does it for GIS maps where different levels get displayed, refined, or simplified, or removed depending on a given set of parameters so that the software becomes a tool that informs its user to develop better designs.
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