Swarm visualisation
The worker-bee is a diagram primitive — a way to draw parallel agent execution in architecture and workflow contexts. It is not a mascot, never the hero, and never the favicon.
What it is for
When a diagram needs to show many agents working in parallel — the swarm, the hum, work routed and completed — the worker-bee primitive is the unit. It lives in architecture diagrams, internal vocabulary, and, sparingly, a secondary mark on operational surfaces.
The defaults
| Property | Default |
|---|---|
| Rest orientation | North / head-up |
| Rotation | 8-way at diagram scale (free in large contexts) |
| State — idle | Grey |
| State — active | Ink |
| State — in motion | Node Blue |
| State — blocked | Red dot |
| Density | Literal bees capped at ~7, then abstract |
Where it belongs
Use the bee primitive inside architecture and workflow diagrams, and only sparingly as a secondary operational mark.
Put the bee on the website hero, make it the favicon, let it replace the wordmark, or treat it as a customer-facing mascot.
The primary identity is always the Autara wordmark and symbol. The bee enters only where it explains the operation — never where it competes with the mark.
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