Dimensions of everyday objects

(dimensions.com)

78 points | by kaniksu 7 days ago ago

7 comments

  • brudgers 5 days ago ago

    If you are fascinated by this sort of thing, In US architectural practice, Architectural Graphic Standard has been the standard for the sizes of things for nearly a century. Even the old "Student Edition" is a rabbit hole book.

    https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Architectural+Graphic+Standards%...

  • heikkilevanto 2 days ago ago

    I can not make out how those things were chosen. A lot of Ikea furniture, a random selection of bollards, Dolly Parton, and a Yellow-Spotted Millipede.

    • pxeger1 a day ago ago

      They must be at least partly automatically generated. Lots of IKEA items because their dimensions are easy to scrape from the website?

  • turtledragonfly 2 days ago ago

    From the name, I thought it was going to be about fractal dimensions[1] (:

    So on that tangent ... you can measure that value for ordinary objects using the "box counting" method[2], to get a notion of objects being "1.3 D" and such.

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

    [2]https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ergreen/honors_thesis/dimension.h...

  • Toby1VC 2 days ago ago

    Please take (some) of my money, what a beautiful site.

    • abraae 2 days ago ago

      The color design is intriguing, works so well for this kind of catalog type site.

      • gowld 2 days ago ago

        It looks cute, but very hard to read, bright monochrome color.