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Re: Size of Life

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Post by abustamam »

setgree wrote: post #78
cs702 wrote: post #44

Beautiful. It's clearly a labor of love. The authors deserve our support. Buy them a coffee via the provided link. Thank you for sharing this on HN.

He has many other cool visualizations! Space Elevator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640226 Deep Sea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21850527

Deep Sea one is scary for some reason. It just gives me shivers to think about how deep the sea is, and what horrors lurk down there. I know that I'll never encounter such a being, but still kinda creepy.

Re: Size of Life

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Post by abustamam »

runtimepanic wrote: post #102

Tools like this are surprisingly effective for teaching, especially compared to static diagrams. Interaction makes the scale differences stick.

When my daughter is old enough, I'm definitely going to show her a bunch of visualizations on Neal's site as supplementary education. I learned so much from these visualizations as an adult, and even without being able to read you can get a sense of scale.

Re: Size of Life

#104

Post by krosaen »

Neal.fun is good clean fun - my kids love it too. Neal, if you are listening, would pay for an ad-free version (I already bought you some coffees too).

Re: Size of Life

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Post by runtimepanic »

abustamam wrote: post #103
runtimepanic wrote: post #102

Tools like this are surprisingly effective for teaching, especially compared to static diagrams. Interaction makes the scale differences stick.

When my daughter is old enough, I'm definitely going to show her a bunch of visualizations on Neal's site as supplementary education. I learned so much from these visualizations as an adult, and even without being able to read you can get a sense of scale.

Totally agree! Even as adults, the sense of scale hits differently when you interact with it. Your daughter will probably love discovering it too.

Re: Size of Life

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Post by gizmo385 »

chrismorgan wrote: post #55

The dynamic soundscape is delightful, as it subtly adds instruments and musical texture as you progress. And going back down the scale regresses it to simple again. Smoothly done. It reminded me of Operation Neptune (1991): each level starts with just one channel, probably percussion, and as you progress through the rooms it adds and removes more channels or sometimes switches to a different section of music. It is u…

The music was breathtaking here - I'd absolutely pay for a version of it. Really solidified the experience

Re: Size of Life

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Post by beejiu »

phkahler wrote: post #90

EDIT: Nevermind. Perhaps it was an ad that I clicked on. Lots of comments here indicating they don't see it, and some that did. My Original comment here (too late to delete): Beware. When you reach the end there is a "more projects" button. In there is a cute IQ test (possibly appealing to the HN crowd). When you reach the end of the test it asks for email, and then ultimately wants $1 to get your results. If you pay…

For what it's worth, there are AdSense interstitial ads on the site, so you probably got duped by one of those ads.

Re: Size of Life

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Post by [deleted] »

phkahler wrote: post #90

EDIT: Nevermind. Perhaps it was an ad that I clicked on. Lots of comments here indicating they don't see it, and some that did. My Original comment here (too late to delete): Beware. When you reach the end there is a "more projects" button. In there is a cute IQ test (possibly appealing to the HN crowd). When you reach the end of the test it asks for email, and then ultimately wants $1 to get your results. If you pay…

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Re: Size of Life

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Post by krosaen »

phkahler wrote: post #90

EDIT: Nevermind. Perhaps it was an ad that I clicked on. Lots of comments here indicating they don't see it, and some that did. My Original comment here (too late to delete): Beware. When you reach the end there is a "more projects" button. In there is a cute IQ test (possibly appealing to the HN crowd). When you reach the end of the test it asks for email, and then ultimately wants $1 to get your results. If you pay…

Saw this too on mobile - I think it's an ad - I requested a paid ad-free version elsewhere in the comments
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