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Re: Show HN: Emoji to Scale

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Post by wartijn_ »

ocimbote wrote: post #56
King-Aaron wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Arm: 30cm. I think my arm is bigger than that. And fire: 40cm. This seems somewhat arbitrary lol

Let's play picky: In anatomy, the arm is the part between the elbow and the shoulder. Below the elbow is the forearm. With that in mind, 30cm for the arm is definitively a sound measure... and the name of the emoji is wrong. On every phone, keyboard and app. tl;dr; what is commonly called arm is in fact arm + forearm. Don't blame the author for being correct.

The emoji isn't called "arm" though, it's "flexed biceps". Alternative names are: biceps | comic | flex | flexed biceps | muscle. [0]

And every popular implementation shows arm + forearm + fist. [1] Giving only one part of that as the length is just wrong.

Even if it were called arm, I would argue that that should be shoulder to wrist, since that's what commonly called an arm. It's also the definition that Merriam Webster has. [2]

[0] https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html#1f4aa

[1] https://emojipedia.org/flexed-biceps/

[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arm

Re: Show HN: Emoji to Scale

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Post by xcambar »

wartijn_ wrote: post #111
ocimbote wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's play picky: In anatomy, the arm is the part between the elbow and the shoulder. Below the elbow is the forearm. With that in mind, 30cm for the arm is definitively a sound measure... and the name of the emoji is wrong. On every phone, keyboard and app. tl;dr; what is commonly called arm is in fact arm + forearm. Don't blame the author for being correct.

The emoji isn't called "arm" though, it's "flexed biceps". Alternative names are: biceps | comic | flex | flexed biceps | muscle. [0] And every popular implementation shows arm + forearm + fist. [1] Giving only one part of that as the length is just wrong. Even if it were called arm, I would argue that that should be shoulder to wrist, since that's what commonly called an arm. It's also the definition that Merriam We…

Just so you know, I'm fine with calling "arm" what is between shoulder and wrist.

I was just annoyed that GP seemed to diminish OP's efforts in building their page by nitpicking chosen lengths and terms, and I chose to enter the game rather than nothing.

Your comments are welcome and informative, thank you for that. Dictionaries are descriptive and not normative, which confirms the common use of arm as "wrist to shoulder".

Re: Show HN: Emoji to Scale

#115

Post by duiker101 »

duiker101 wrote: post #99
franga2000 wrote: post #96

Cool idea, but since one one dimension (height?) was considered, you get some weird things like a cactus (12m) being way bigger than a house (7m).

Not to mention the bigger than the Hippopotamus :D Very cool project tho!

I meant to say the woman, forgot the word :D

Re: Show HN: Emoji to Scale

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Post by ljm »

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #26
tim-- wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Definitely had the same question, and the exact same realisation. We must be Android users!

I wrote the first comment before I realized what it was. I thought it was a joke where the author intentionally mis-sized an object. Only after I submitted did it occur to me that the size could be similar to the moon's

I'm tempted to submit the clownface emoji at twice the scale of the sun, in reference to both the large clown boss in Super Bomberman[0], and more loosely to Sinistar[1]

[0]https://bomberman.fandom.com/wiki/Clown_Mask

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinistar

Re: Show HN: Emoji to Scale

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Post by wongarsu »

franga2000 wrote: post #96

Cool idea, but since one one dimension (height?) was considered, you get some weird things like a cactus (12m) being way bigger than a house (7m).

Even more confusingly, it's not consistent about the measured dimension. The car is 1.8m (wide), the firetruck is 2.3m (wide), the tractor is 5m (long), the bus is 12m (long), the statue of liberty is 46m (high), the astrodome is 66m (high).

It would have made more sense to stay with either height or the largest dimension (but that would have been weird for mountains, which often are far wider than high).

Re: Show HN: Emoji to Scale

#118

Post by aasasd »

mvexel wrote: post #52
toqy wrote: post #49

Reminds me of an old favorite https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....

That, and OP, reminded me of the Eames "Powers of 10" film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

A better way to enjoy that is with a soundtrack by Gas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvG-jqGsWSk

Re: Show HN: Emoji to Scale

#119

Post by jug »

joe5150 wrote: post #63
joe5150 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

and this at the other end: https://emojipedia.org/microbe/

alas: https://github.com/javierbyte/emoji-to-scale/commit/b7b54d7e...

OK, I guess that's technically understandable and all, but in this case I hope they understand their chart is completely and utterly unusable now.

Re: Show HN: Emoji to Scale

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Post by mminer237 »

rob74 wrote: post #103
cunthorpe wrote: post #25

Goat: 45cm Duck: 50cm Might as well say “shuffled emojis with random data attached”

Also, the "running man" being bigger than a cow and about the same size as a horse... But what really bugs me is that it simply uses some font it finds on your system, so on my slightly outdated Linux version it only shows about 70% of the emojis. I mean, if there was ever a perfect use case for webfonts, it would be this page...

The average man is taller in height than the average cow and shorter in total height than the average horse.

His cow is about the average total height of a cow at 160cm.

He has an oddly short man though at 165cm / 5'5".

And he says the horse is the same size, but that would be only 16 hands. That would be the withers size of an average horse, but the total height of only a pony.

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