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This is fantastic looking. Very well done.

Minor nitpick; your spiral is a helix, not a spiral.

This is false pedantry. Have you ever seen a spiral staircase?

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spiral

"While a "spiral" and a "helix" are distinct as technical terms, a helix is sometimes described as a spiral in non-technical usage." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral

They are different, but people who don't know the difference often call hexixes spirals, as is the case with spiral staircases.

I'm fairly certain that the non-technical sense by far predates the more narrow technical definition. It's all about context, and there was nothing here that would make helix more correct than spiral.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=spiral

Fixed. Thanks!

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