with the yahoo zodiac
we can visualise elastic links
between the taste-and-smell
of every pair of chemical compounds
and allow the whole to 'relax'
into an optimal shape
with similar smells clustered
and then find an axis of rotation
that offers maximal separation (say)
between the basic tastebud categories
(sweet sour salt etc)
and then flatten the whole
along this axis
so that every chemical
has a precise sequential
angle of rotation
in 'smell-o-betical order'
on this olfactory zodiac
and we can then promote
the most-commonly-experienced chemicals
into the innermost orbits
and demote the least common
to the outermost orbits
and we can light these 'stars'
(eg) by toxicity
with most toxic shining reddest
most nutritious shining greenest
neutral yellow
.
