For those rare occasions where whimsy for the sake of whimsy is preferred.

Realistically, I may only use something like this in a situation where one of the radio selection options has an effect that you want to call extra attention to.

I can't come up with a representative example right now, but I'm sure there's one out there.

Your point is well taken though... for the vast majority of cases where this could remotely be useful there exist better ways to encode the information you are trying to convey.

It is a fun set of experiments, so I give the author props for that.