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| Vree #618408 8 months ago |
No idea why I made this silly thing, since it does not include anything that hasn't been said already.
I guess...A dragon being 10 ponies tall is cool to know, right? |
| SoundwaveSuperior #618445 8 months ago |
what happened to the apple system? |
| SoundwaveSuperior #618469 8 months ago |
oh wait, 1 hoof = 1 apple |
| Lupal_Fillyus #618483 8 months ago |
3.3g apples?
Have some 333g apples instead. Those are still freaking heavy apples. But calculation aside, why do you assume apples to have the same density as flesh? |
| Hellfire #618533 8 months ago |
I always thought the apple system was flawed, apples can vary in size depending on many factors. |
| Aemilius #618871 8 months ago |
*Saved*
Many thanks, this will help me. |
| marioandsonic #619138 8 months ago |
Don't you use your fancy mathematics! |
| Vree #619502 8 months ago |
Yay, I got some likes :D
I left out one of the important details: the reason I used an irregular unit was so that you can apply changes and the ratios will still stand. So, a dragon is always 10x the size of a pony; if you decide that 1 hoof should be say, 5 inches, everything will be slightly bigger, but their sizes compared to each other can still be used.The "official" rates give OK results and are easy to count with, but the idea was to allow some leewy - perhaps just like RL hands and ounces, Equestrian units may vary basd on local tradition as well, so everyone can assume them to be what everyone likes the most. ^^^ Yeah, I messed up the weight ratios (I threw that bit in on a whim and I had no sleep). It should've been 1/3 kg like you said. I agree that thatseems a heavy apple, but for a 4-inch apple it's actually not at all that much. (Here's a good site for reference: http://www.clovegarden.com/ingred/rosepa.html) I made some calculations for the density of organic things waay back and decided that they were small enough to ignore (certainly different from say, metals where differences are huge). Looking at it now, though, I think a better estimate would be x2 - apples would be around 0.7 g/cc and flesh 1.4 g/cc (not accounting for bone, but let's ignore that - a Shetland would be big boned indeed, but we are talking about cute bouncy ponies here.) That takes off enough that apples can be half the weight of what I said. I really wanted to set the apple standard to 100g/1 Newton (yay for simplicity!, plus historically 1 Newton -was- the weight of one apple), but that seemed to lead to some unrealistically light ponies. With these adjustments, it'd be at 100g 3x10x10 x2 = 60 kgs. While this'd be light for a RL pony (a 40 inch/1 meter Planet Earth pony is 200 pounds/100 kg), it may be OK for Equestria ponies. I suggest we go with it. (Or you can adjust it for realism: 160g apples and 100 kg ponies. That's also a great match.) |
| Vree #619770 8 months ago |
(Gotta point out tho that Planet Earth ponies have longer bodies, while Equestrians have the same lenght as height. So if a Shetland is 100 kg at one meter, 60 kg for a My Little Pony seems perfectly in proportion.) |
| Anonymous #619917 8 months ago |
Okay so an average pony is 3.3 feet, which is what Twilight is, Spike is technically 2 feet and Gilda was 4 feet, am I right? |
| Anonymous #620242 8 months ago |
waitwaitwaitwait
The question we should be asking is - how tall are real-life cows, and how can this affect the calculations? Seems like cows might be more reliable units of measure than apples or something... |
| FlarityinstaFav #621427 8 months ago |
I love this stuff, knowledge for ponies sake, and all that.... |
| Anonymous #621926 8 months ago |
So how many hooves is the Ursa Major? |
| Vree #622487 8 months ago |
#620242
type cow_scale into search, Scootsmod did it already :) #621926 I'd give 80-100 for Minor and 480-600 for Major (when on all fours; they are 2x as big standing). They are easily the largest creatures on the show. |
| Anonymous #750673 7 months ago |
So for any of these measurements, in hooves:
- Divide by 3 for feet - Divide by 9 for yards - Multiply by 10 for centimeters - Divide by 10 for meters That's pretty convenient, even if it's just a rough guide! That'd also put an Ursa Major at around the size of a 20-story building. By Celestia's beard... |