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2761: "1-to-1 Scale"
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2023 6:45 pm
by ratammer
Title text:
There's a version that shows the planets with no cropping, but it's hard to find a display that supports it.
I was very confused, looked up the explanation, and am still quite confused. Are these parts of the surface of the planets?
Re: 2761: "1-to-1 Scale"
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2023 6:16 am
by somitomi
ratammer wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2023 6:45 pm
I was very confused, looked up the explanation, and am still quite confused. Are these parts of the surface of the planets?
I think so
Re: 2761: "1-to-1 Scale"
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2023 12:27 pm
by LingEarth
Yes. It's like Randall did this:
- Draw a 1:1 (i.e. full-scale) picture of Earth. Easy!
- It's 25,000 miles across, and he doesn't have a screen that big, so he crops it to fit on the screen. The portion you can see is just a little 2-inch patch of ground, too small to even see the planet's curvature.
- Repeat for the other seven planets.
- He can't put them all side by side in the cropped version, so instead he just takes the eight surface pieces, rotates them, and layers them on top of each other, with a patch of sky in the middle.