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Title: If the moon were one pixel
Post by: Plu on March 10, 2014, 04:21:32 AM

A map of the solar system to scale... scroll using the middle mouse button. Be prepared to sit a while... turns out the solar system is pretty big.

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pix ... ystem.html (http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html)

Title: Re: If the moon were one pixel
Post by: Sal1981 on March 10, 2014, 05:49:40 AM

just open the console if you want to save time, in Chrome it's CTRL+SHIFT+i, and then just open the "bigspace" wrapper and then "planetwrapper" wrapper, and you can scroll into view all the planets (and the Sun) by opening the wrappers and each of the SVG items by right-clicking the the items and just left-clicking "scroll into view" and vóila no right-scrolling needed.

Title: Re: If the moon were one pixel
Post by: Plu on March 10, 2014, 05:51:03 AM

You can also just click the starsigns at the top and it'll rapidly move you to the next planet ;)

But then you kinda lose track of just how incredibly far you have to scroll, which was the whole point of the thing :P

Title: Re: If the moon were one pixel
Post by: Sal1981 on March 10, 2014, 05:54:10 AM

Quote from: "Plu"You can also just click the starsigns at the top and it'll rapidly move you to the next planet ;)

But then you kinda lose track of just how incredibly far you have to scroll, which was the whole point of the thing :P

Yeah, but you get to see all the little comments about SPAAAACCCCEEEE while you scroll through the console view.

Title: Re: If the moon were one pixel
Post by: renasimplified on April 18, 2014, 11:29:34 PM

I enjoyed that very much! Than you for sharing. It really puts perspective into how insignificant and small we are.

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