Spherical Spirals?

A loxodrome-based model may resolve many of the issues listed last month. 

These would be essentially spherical spirals, nested inside each other, naturally forming ‘staircases’ in which to move around on. 

Furthermore, each nested spherical spiral might be able to rotate, therefore the innermost loxodrome/sphere could be engineered to momentarily meet the outermost loxodrome/sphere (directly linking back the pathway between æsthetics and metaphysics for example).

Also, at each level, mutual growth of a new internal ‘child’ loxodrome/sphere whilst shrinking the ‘parent’ by the same amount (imagine the surface of a balloon being pushed inside-out) would address the dynamism issue. 

Moreover, such a model would be able to echo the tables much more faithfully, each row physically nested within the row above.

The very particular nature of a modal built entirely out of curved surfaces lends itself to unique ways of displaying text, etc.

Possibly, in order to engage the user, the model may well include game-like aspects (perhaps ‘rewards’ for traveling through levels whist endeavouring to keep spiralling pathways in focus). 

There are still many design choices to make, but I think that a loxodrome-based model is worth investigating further as a way of visually conveying the structure of Objectivism in the best possible way. 

I aim to have something to visualise next month…

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