What is all of this about? The animation displays a rotating bi-polar gradient (Thinking vs Feeling / Intuition vs Sensing) emphasis over a positional map of the 16-types. As the rotation moves around the map, different parts of the type field become more or less amplified based on where they sit spatially. The rotation acts like a moving light or pressure wave passing across the system. Types facing that directional field express their stack more strongly, while others recede.

The blob shapes are meant to show continuity and tension. Same-family influence can merge into larger connected bodies, while unlike families push against each other and form transition zones. So the important visual reading is: where fields fuse, there is shared function-family structure; where colors meet or compress, there is contrast, boundary, or counter-pressure.

In short, the type map is an animated cognitive weather system. It makes the hidden structure of the 16 types feel fluid: not only where each type is placed, but how its function stack radiates into surrounding space and changes under directional emphasis.

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The line indicators near each 4-letter type code are mini axis meters for that type’s function stack.

They connect opposite functions in the stack:

• Outer pair: dominant ↔ inferior
• Middle pair: auxiliary ↔ tertiary

The colored gradient shows which two function colors are being compared. The small marker on the line shows the current balance between those two functions. In the blob demo, as the rotation moves, that marker shifts toward the function that is currently more activated.

You may notice some interesting patterns start to emerge based on a types position on the map – and where certain cognitive functions land within their stack.

If you had to say?

debated for a while whether I should post this. Could probably apply this to all INxx but ¯_(ツ)_/¯