[Xmonad] [PATCH: XMonadContrib] Spiral tile layout

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

joe.thornber:
> On 23/05/07, Donald Bruce Stewart <dons at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> >Is this just a normal spiral? How about a fibonacci spiral?
> 
> Yes it's a normal spiral; the ratio is constant.  Doing an
> approximation to a fibonacci spiral should be a minor tweak, the ratio
> just changes: eg in the example on that page the ratios are [8%5, 5%3,
> 3%2 ...].  The final result will only be an approximation since the
> aspect ratio of the screen will vary, so we'll probably get rectangles
> rather than squares.
> 
> I'll code this up later in the week.
> 
> - Joe

Cool. Sjanssen did get a nice approximation though, see the screenshot
here,

    http://xmonad.org/images/screen-sjanssen-spiral-thumb.png
    http://xmonad.org/images/screen-sjanssen-spiral.png

Any thoughts on other (practical) spirals, or tiling?

-- Don