Subject: Re: World size
From: Jari P Saukkonen (jsaukkon@cs.Helsinki.FI)
Date: Wed Dec 01 1999 - 10:52:18 EET
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Jonathan Koehn (Eleril) wrote: > On this map how big will. Say a average size pc be. if he where on a square > meter how much would he occupy of it. Closer to a ants size or closer to > human size. The scale is uniform, all measures are on the same scale. If you put 65000 two-meter tall humans in line, you'll cover the world from one end to another (assuming 131km map). If you mean the amount of people fitting to one square meter, it's determined by their fatness :). It's just how much the object physically (approximated) takes space. +++ dazzt --- | Jari Saukkonen + jari.saukkonen@cs.helsinki.fi : coral -. | programming music graphics | dolphin : | art keyboards web | nah-kolor | +------------------------------------------------+-----------' | Babylon5-inspired 'shadow function' 0 <= t <= 4*pi/3 : x(t) = (sin 8t)^2 * (5 + 3sin 8t) cos (t/2 + (sin 8t)^2) . y(t) = +-(sin 8t)^2 * (5 + 3cos 8t) sin (t/2 + (sin 8t)^2)
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