They are quite different shapes: the sphere is uniform; the golden spiral is dynamic. Spheres, being the same scale all over, don't fit exactly within the transforming chambers of a spiral — at least not touching one another with equal spacing.
I wonder if a spiral's cells (like the chambers of a Nautilus shell), a space–filling whole, has a more appropriate geometry for conveying philosophical categories, rather than a set of isolated or paired or oddly overlapping spheres?
More on ‘apt geometries’ month…
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