Logarithmic Spiral

Growth rate, spiral tightness, radial regularity
scaledim 21 metrics

What It Measures

How uniformly the signal's growth structure fills angular space.

Maps the time series onto a logarithmic spiral in polar coordinates: each sample advances the angle by a data-dependent step (larger values rotate faster) while the radius grows exponentially. The resulting spiral path reflects multiplicative structure in the data.

Metrics

angular_uniformity

How uniform are the angular step sizes along the spiral path? Computed as 1 minus the coefficient of variation of consecutive angular increments. 1.0 means all steps are the same size. Collatz Gap Lengths (0.984) scores highest: its angular increments are nearly constant in magnitude. Accelerometer sitting (0.968) and BTC Returns (0.961) are close behind — both have broad amplitude distributions that produce consistent angular steps. Collatz Parity scores 0.292 (strongly non-uniform — the binary values create only two angular step sizes). Constants score 0.0.

Atlas Rankings

angular_uniformity
SourceDomainValue
Collatz Gap Lengthsnumber_theory0.9843
Accel Sitmotion0.9678
BTC Returnsfinancial0.9611
···
Constant 0xFFnoise0.0000
Constant 0x00noise0.0000
Collatz Paritynumber_theory0.2919

When It Lights Up

Logarithmic Spiral's angular_uniformity is a proxy for how well the signal's amplitude distribution fills the dynamic range. Signals with uniform or symmetric distributions achieve high uniformity; signals with degenerate or heavily skewed distributions concentrate in narrow angular sectors. It complements the distributional view by providing a geometric (rather than entropic) measure of amplitude spread. In the atlas, it separates continuous-valued signals with broad distributions (financial returns, accelerometer data) from binary or symbolic signals (Collatz parity, Morse code) along the scale view's angular axis.

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