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scalometer: Universcale
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A blog about vast scales of physical phenomena and how we can survey such ranges with artistic and graphic techniques. Monday, June 27, 2011. Nikon commissioned from the Japanese design boutique BA. A gorgeous superscale survey application called " Universcale. The flash applet displays about one hundred objects in ways that allow the viewer to compare their size (in meters). Here is an assortment of the illustrations by Y. Yoriko. Below, some examples (all are linked to their website). Cary Huang has ad...
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scalometer: Comparing Gigawatt Electric Plants with Hiroshima
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A blog about vast scales of physical phenomena and how we can survey such ranges with artistic and graphic techniques. Sunday, May 6, 2012. Comparing Gigawatt Electric Plants with Hiroshima. A staff writer in the Economist's special report on nuclear reactors used such metaphors to explain the power of gigawatt reactors:. The math seems wrong to me, here. A 5 GW plant in a day yields 4.32 x 10 14 Joules. According to the Manhattan Project memorial site, the Little Boy Hiroshima bomb yielded 1...The Hiros...
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scalometer: Huang's Scale Zooming App Updated
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A blog about vast scales of physical phenomena and how we can survey such ranges with artistic and graphic techniques. Sunday, April 22, 2012. Huang's Scale Zooming App Updated. Cary Huang has added many more objects to the htwins.net flash application. 16 x 10 27. At least 160 billion light-years. The Estimated Size of the Universe. The Universe is everything we know. We know. Nothing of what lies beyond! Oh, also, the universe may be much larger than. 93 x 10 26. And we can see these. 127 x 10 26.
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scalometer: Chronozoom Zooms Billions of Years
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A blog about vast scales of physical phenomena and how we can survey such ranges with artistic and graphic techniques. Saturday, June 16, 2012. Chronozoom Zooms Billions of Years. Chronozoom is an open source community project dedicated to visualizing Big History. Its zoomable interface is a good application of a ZUI (Zoomable User Interface). The economist writes:. Raskin, SketchHub and Grape are other ZUIs- Florian Gunther maintains a good list of them here. Prezi, http:/ www.prezi.com. Walt Whitman wr...