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These ternary plots are also commonly used for compositional data, e.g. for displaying a property of a three component mixture. Its three components shall always sum up to 100 %, thus the axes are increasing in opposite directions to each other.
They are common and yet I still really struggle to quickly understand what any points but the three extremes mean. I'm not sure there's an alternative though.
my problem is that from any node there are two possible lines to an edgezand I'm never sure which is the correct one
Right this is the thing I cant ever seems to quickly get.