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The Scale of the Universe 2
An interactive slider that lets you zoom across the sizes of objects from subatomic particles to the entire observable u…
Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps
A page-by-page online copy of Kees Boeke's 1957 book Cosmic View, which zooms from a girl in a chair out to the edge of…
Distance to Mars
If Earth were 100 pixels wide, how far away would Mars be? Scroll sideways through an enormous empty page to feel the re…
Emoji to Scale
An interactive page that sizes your favorite emojis to scale (more or less), so you can compare how big or small animals…
Googolplex Written Out
A site that shows what the number googolplex would look like written out in a book, a page-by-page glimpse of an absurdl…
Here Is Today
An interactive that starts with today and zooms out step by step through the year, the century and the age of Earth to s…
How AWS S3 Serves 1 PB per Second on Slow HDDs
An accessible tour of how Amazon S3 spreads data across tens of millions of hard drives to reach enormous throughput, us…
How much is 13 billion euros?
A scrubbable experiment that makes a huge sum tangible by dragging a slider through back-of-the-envelope comparisons of…
HumanForScale
A site that shows how big things really are by placing a human figure beside them, making their true size easy to grasp…
If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel
A tediously accurate scale model of the solar system where the Moon is one pixel and the emptiness of space is felt by s…
OMG Space
A graphic design thesis that shows the Sun, planets, and dwarf planets to scale in one scroll of over 19 million pixels,…
One Million Emojis
A single-purpose page that presents one million emojis at once, a silly scale experiment to scroll through and marvel at…
Planet Resizer
Compare the sizes of the planets, dwarf planets and moons of the solar system as true sizes, as seen from Earth through…
Planet Resizer
A visualization of the planets, dwarf planets and moons of the solar system that lets you switch perspectives, comparing…
Scale of the Universe
An interactive zoom through the scale of the universe, from the smallest particles to the whole observable universe, wit…
Scaleton
A puzzle platformer made for GMTK in which the scale of your gun is both your best friend and your worst enemy. Free to…
Scroll to a Billion
How big is a billion? Start scrolling a seemingly endless page of dots and comparisons to feel the true size of a billio…
Size It Up
A daily visual estimation game: resize five target objects until they look right beside a known reference, scoring up to…
Space Object Comparison
An interactive size comparison of planets, moons, and stars that lets you line up celestial objects side by side and gra…
The Measure of Things
A comparison tool that turns any length, weight, or amount into everyday objects so you can finally picture how big, hea…
The Scale of Life
Over a hundred live counters showing life happening in real time, from births and heartbeats to trees and animals, to he…
vos: the Vastness of Space
An interactive map-based walk planner built around one question: how big is the universe? Plan journeys across the cosmo…
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