On 9-8-2018 13:11, Stephen wrote:
> On 08/08/2018 12:08, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> 
>>>
>>
>> I often need to take stock again and again of the gigantic distances 
>> and sizes we are dealing with in a planetary system. It is something 
>> quite difficult to grasp, and rendering things like the Ringworld 
>> makes us forget them, reducing them to simple rings to be taken into 
>> our hands ;-)
>>
> 
> Translating from the mind's eye to reality is always a problem with 
> planetary scales.

Indeed. It is not just a matter of scaling up or scaling down the model. 
More is involved.

> 
> I wonder if it is possible to use a log rather than a linear scale along 
> the axis.
> 

I'll leave that to my betters, but it might be an interesting and 
worthwhile experiment.

-- 
Thomas

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