sidenote : "I don't see much of the gearbox though, because most of the time my screens look like this:" And yet, when we design code architectures, we do visu

sidenote : "I don't see much of the gearbox though, because most of the time my screens look like this:" And yet, when we design code architectures, we do visualize shapes ( of components) and motion ( of data through components ). Is there any attempt at drawing those basic patterns into shapes that could exists in the real world, other than with the traditional box diagrams ?