Building relationship diagrams

In Chapter 6, Drawing Trees and Graphs, we encountered a special relationship diagram, the mind map. The smartdiagram package offers other diagram types that indicate connections between concepts or objects. Such diagrams are naturally not linear – for example, a mind map can be very complex, such as in Figure 6.15.

Since they are focused and aesthetically pleasing, we will focus on circular relationship diagrams, which have a central concept and related concepts placed around them.

Our first diagram type shall be a bubble diagram. It’s like a mind map – there is a central concept or object, and related concepts are placed around it in a circular manner and shape. The following code illustrates it:

\smartdiagramset{bubble node font=\sffamily\LARGE,
  bubble center node font=\sffamily\Huge}
\smartdiagram[bubble diagram]{Diagrams,
    Nodes, Edges, Arrows, Labels, Colors}

This code generates...