After looking at a few options for placing stuff in an outward spiral I came across the Archimedean Spiral. I'm rendering my items on an HTML5 canvas so this is all being done in Javascript. After implementing it I started to play around with the values a bit and produced some very interesting effects. Below are two of my favorites...

Mind you this is being done with part-finished code so it may not even be a good way of achieving it but it did the trick and I thought I'd post it before the code morphs into something far beyond what's necessary/needed for this.

The little Javascript/HTML snippet that does this is: ```js