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One error I think I spotted: Wooly Mammoth atill lived 4000 years ago in Wrangel Island but the the website says it got extinct 10,000 years ago.
“Compressible rodent” was not a phrase I thought I’d ever hear but I’m glad I did. Worth the price of a couple of coffees.
For comparison: ASML machines print chips with precision up to 2nm.
https://www.asml.com/en/products/euv-lithography-systems/twi...
He always makes great content, I love it.
Beautiful site. Also very pleased to see the mitochondrion being referred to as the powerhouse of the cell, as is law.
I’m pleasantly surprised that Tyrannosaurus rex’s tiny hands were depicted so accurately. As far as I recall, scientists are still puzzled about why it even had hands. Apparently, they were too small to be useful for anything, not even scratching its face.
I like the stuff un the sute but the number if partners and affiliates in the consent window is very off putting.
Did a great job keeping the scale jumps fresh. Every step had a little twist instead of just a commonly known larger animal on the next slide. Wild that the Japanese spider crab is basically the same size as an orangutan.
My main takeaway was that I had no clue how large Krill can get. To think that Antarctic Krill is as long as the Bee Hummingbird is tall is absurd to me.
Beautiful! I love the human feet always visible in the background! It helps me set perspective.
Wonderful. The music, illustrations, and sliding sound effect reminded me of the game Braid.
You’re telling me a white blood cell is only ten times longer than mitochondria?
How is that possible? Doesn’t it contain at least thousands?
(Uninsightful comment but I’m gonna put it here anyway) The US spelling of haemoglobin is all kinds of wrong. Love the site. Would love some algae in there though. Perhaps a desmid or diatom?
This is simply beautiful, and will definitely inspire me with some arty projects I'm working on.
Great work -> the minimalist UI, art and music fits amazingly.
One thing I noticed: the site's images fail to load if the brave adblocker is on
On a desktop screen, you also see a 'Compare To' button which puts the current and the compared one beside each other!
I didn't know tardigrades can be big enough to be seen with the naked eye. Apparently big enough to be seen but not big enough to be recognised without magnification.
Crazy how something so simple hits so hard. Always wild to see how much meaning people can pack into a minimal format.
I don't understand how the location of a 377 foot tall tree could be kept secret. Wouldn't that type of thing be visible in satellite imagery at the very least?
Is banana a life? If yes, then hundreds of other lives are not included in this project.
A simple idea but fabulous execution!
Nit: the tool-tips on the action icons in the top-right aren't consistent.
When music is playing the tool tip is "unmute" which is a verb. It should either be "mute" (to indicate what clicking will do) or "unmuted" (adjective) indicating the current state. Similarly, when the music is muted the tool-tip should either be "muted" or "unmute".
I'm not sure _which_ is wanted (verb or adjective) because the ruler tool-tip uses "Hide Ruler" and "Show Ruler" (verb), while the units tool-tip uses "Units: imperial" and "Units: Metric" (adjective). The info tool-tip ("Info") is also an adjective.
For consistency, I'd use a verb-phrase in all the tool tips:
- "Show info"
- "Switch units to metric/imperial"
- "Hide/show ruler"
- "Mute/unmute music"
I mean, I know this is pedantic nit-picking, but the site is so perfect, what else am I going to do?
Fun to see the Jerboa. I recently read a family history written by my uncle and he believes this is the source of our family name.
EDIT: Nevermind. Perhaps it was an ad that I clicked on. Lots of comments here indicating they don't see it, and some that did.
My Original comment here (too late to delete):
Beware. When you reach the end there is a "more projects" button. In there is a cute IQ test (possibly appealing to the HN crowd). When you reach the end of the test it asks for email, and then ultimately wants $1 to get your results. If you pay by credit card due note that there is an auto-checked box for some $29.99 per month subscription for... something.
So wonderful. Thanks for making this so open. I'll show it to my kids. The artwork is very good and the soundtrack too.
this has more of an indie gem feel compared to the blockbuster that was stimulation clicker. as others have mentioned it reminds me of scale of the universe flash animation. I think borrowing some ideas from that, including zooming in and out rather than side to side, could have benefits here.
It was great until Sea snail appeared in inches. Transitioning from micrometer/milliliter to inches is pretty rough
Minor thing that bothers me is that I can't scroll through the things like in the deep sea or space elevator.
Very beautiful. Love this.
If it helps, AFAIK (I do atomic force microscopy of DNA), DNA's height is closer to 2nm than 4.
So many loving comments, I have nothing more to add to them, and nothing to subtract from them.
>Music & SFX by Aleix Ramon >Cello performance by Iratxe Ibaibarriaga
Got a link to the music?
double clicking makes the animation jitter. ive had to deal with matching derivatives of smooth slopes in rendering as well. the animation seems to be finite time (and so variable velocity) and mashing click is just updating the final point without matching the current derivative.
This is absolutely incredible. Thank you.
The people on the page look really scary with DarkReader enabled.
Why not "microinches" while you're at it?
Like all of your projects....thank you for sharing
Cool, but a little more thought on the content rather than the presentation would improve it. For example starting with an arbitrary segment of DNA double helix and saying how "tall" this arbitrary segment is, is just silly.
Instead, it should show how _wide_ it is. And for extra coolness, keep it in frame, coiling longer and longer as you go, and eventually have the same strand, which has been with us all the time, as a specific example (e.g. human chromosome 7 or some such) by _length_
Are there supposed to be pictures? I passed a human silhouette, but that was it.
The Japanese spider crab being the same size as a tiger shocked me.
Always awesome with by Neal.
The music is phenomenal. Really, really phenomenal.
An obvious benefit of "humans adapting to create websites"!
Wow! That's very interesting.
Beautiful website, love that it's using vue.
Blood cells are huge!
Always a joy to see neal.fun on the HN front page.
Arthropleura is missing shadow.
What surprised me most was how large a single neuron is.
I've got a sudden strong urge to play Katamari Damacy.
You are an artist, a good one .
Amazing!
I always thought that the best we could do for targeted drug delivery was an adenovirus. But after seeing that parasite being only slightly bigger than a red blood cell, I think we can do better...