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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>
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