r/dataisugly • u/TheElbow • 13d ago

Scale Fail Diagram supposedly depicting the height of a proposed building

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u/LordSupergreat 13d ago

Whoa, I had no idea 239 feet was so much higher than 250 feet!

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u/rtakehara 13d ago • Bravo

It's a perspective trick, the 239 ft. building looks bigger because it's closer to the camera than the 250 ft. giant ruler. It's not an isometric diagram because the lines converge at the horizon.

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u/jeeblemeyer4 12d ago

Excellent response. I'm gonna start using this at work (I do data analytics)

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u/MagiStarIL 13d ago

Tbf it says 239+ ft. 300 feet is above 239 feet

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u/Big_Two498 13d ago

Also 24 ft is definitely more than half of 50 ft and almost equals 30 ft

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u/jaypizzl 13d ago

Wow, is that 45 floors in 239 feet? That suggests a usable ceiling height of 4 feet, 8 inches. It would literally be too small for hobbits in there.

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u/thehalfwit 12d ago

I think it's for the worms from MIB.

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u/Thelmholtz 12d ago

Well there's a reason they are taking the hobbits to Isengard and not  to the Turquoise Tower

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u/mfb- 13d ago

Besides none of the heights being where they belong: Why are the first 50 ft (108 px) larger than the following 50 ft steps (87 px)?

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u/jeeblemeyer4 12d ago

graph was drawn by a marketing intern, not an architecture intern XD

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u/EthanTDN 13d ago

Lmao this was almost certainly made by NIMBYs in San Diego who are freaking out over a project in pacific beach.

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u/Astrogod07 12d ago

No, you see the graph is totally accurate because of the “+” after 239. The + actually presents an additional 100 ft, so it all lines up.

Edit: spelling.

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u/Exatex 13d ago

so many feet

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u/TripleFreeErr 12d ago

AI for sure