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Re: Show HN: Emoji to Scale

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Post by fastball »

adzm wrote: post #11
wartijn_ wrote: post #9

Funny idea, but lot of these seem off. - A chicken egg is taller than 5cm. - I would say a tulip is bigger than a phone. - The okay hand sign says it's 21 cm.My hands are larger than average, but definitely smaller than 21cm. - A duck isn't bigger than a goat. - An elephant is smaller than a house.

I think some measurements are widths and some are heights.

I think they're actually all by height, and if you google them the OP actually matches up. e.g. googling

"duck height": 20 – 30 in (51 – 76 cm)

"goat height": 16 – 23 in (40 – 58 cm)

Maybe it would be better to do them by mass.

Re: Show HN: Emoji to Scale

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Post by hbn »

wartijn_ wrote: post #9

Funny idea, but lot of these seem off. - A chicken egg is taller than 5cm. - I would say a tulip is bigger than a phone. - The okay hand sign says it's 21 cm.My hands are larger than average, but definitely smaller than 21cm. - A duck isn't bigger than a goat. - An elephant is smaller than a house.

I'm curious how he determined that fire is 40cm

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Post by AceJohnny2 »

tim-- wrote: post #16
AceJohnny2 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

oh nm that's the moon

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

Re: Show HN: Emoji to Scale

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Post by 0x456 »

Some of these don't show up for me (like Saturn). This might work better with a web-font? Although then you'd lose the harmonious platform emojis. I wonder if there's a way to check if a unicode character exists in a font and dynamically substitute, without using canvas.

Re: Show HN: Emoji to Scale

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Post by nkozyra »

wartijn_ wrote: post #9

Funny idea, but lot of these seem off. - A chicken egg is taller than 5cm. - I would say a tulip is bigger than a phone. - The okay hand sign says it's 21 cm.My hands are larger than average, but definitely smaller than 21cm. - A duck isn't bigger than a goat. - An elephant is smaller than a house.

The one that most confused me was lips bigger than the heart

Re: Show HN: Emoji to Scale

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Post by dhritzkiv »

cunthorpe wrote: post #25

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

I managed to force this data to sort-of work by using a pygmy goat at 40-50cm tall, and a mallard deck at 50-65cm long (even larger than the site suggests). So, sure.

But if you use a more typical domestic goat, like an Irish Goat, you get a height of 80-90cm. The length is even longer.

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