Subject:
|
Re: Scale?
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.general
|
Date:
|
Thu, 6 Jan 2000 10:13:27 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
816 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.starwars, John J. Ladasky, Jr. writes:
>
> Matthew Miller wrote:
> >
> > John J. Ladasky Jr. <ladasky@my-deja.com> wrote:
> > > I'll try to be more specific. Lay a minifig down on its back. You will
> > > see that it's five studs high. An average adult human is about 1.7
> > > meters (or 5 feet, 7 inches) tall. Divide 1.7 meters by 5 studs, and
> > > you get 0.35 meters per stud.
> >
> > So the average human has an 83" (2.1m) waist???
>
> Hey, a minifig is shaped *quite* unlike a human being. You have to pick
> one minifig body dimension, and use it as the basis for your scale.
> Height, being the longest measure on the minifig, would seem to be the
> obvious choice. You're right, this leads to an unrealistically large
> girth -- which is one of the reasons why it's hard to cram two minifigs
> into a six-wide vehicle, where IRL a six-foot wide automobile would
> easily seat two abreast.
>
> I am not the only one to use the scale of 0.35 meters per stud for
> minifigs. Since the distance between stud centers is 8.0 millimeters,
> this translates to a scale of 1:42.5. See for example <http://www.lugnet.com/trains/?n=2482>.
>
> Followups set to lugnet.general.
>
> --
> John J. Ladasky Jr., Ph.D.
> Department of Structural Biology
> Stanford University Medical Center
> Stanford, CA 94305
> Secretary, Californians for Renewable Energy <http://www.calfree.com>
an average human is 6 &half to 7 heads tall; where a mini-fig is exactly 4
heads tall. to compensate for the extreme girth, could this ratio be
factored into the scale to recieve a good average? i'm horrible at math so
i'm not even going to attempt this...
when i picture mini-fig scale, i see them as being shorter/ smaller than
the average person in terms of scale, anyway.
later ~ craig~
|
|
1 Message in This Thread:
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
