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prmphlast Wednesday at 8:08 PM1 replyview on HN

Cool visualization, but I also noticed the switch from SI units to imperial. From micrometers to inches, which was jarring and hard for me to compare.

I'd suggest keeping the SI unit , or at least having both once we get to the level of inches.


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s1monlast Wednesday at 8:48 PM

I found that jarring as well. There's a toggle in the upper right to switch to metric.

Even with setting it to metric, it progresses through units based on the scale. I realize that scientists love to work in scientific notation, and progressing from nanometers to micrometers, mm, cm, and finally meters sort of follows that kind of logic. I wonder how it would feel if the whole thing was in constant units or at least there was an option for that.