{"id":16346,"date":"2014-09-25T07:24:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T15:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=16346"},"modified":"2014-09-25T07:24:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T15:24:33","slug":"many-spaceships-can-fit-2451km-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/art\/many-spaceships-can-fit-2451km-space\/","title":{"rendered":"How many spaceships can you fit into 2,451km of space?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dirk Loechel<\/a>, a visual artist from Germany, loves spaceships. So much so, that he created a beautiful scale chart of hundreds of spacecraft from many of the most popular science fiction IPs, including Warhammer 40k<\/em>, Star Trek<\/em>, Gundam<\/em>, Final Fantasy<\/em>, and even Spaceballs<\/em>. If you’ve got a favourite ship, it’s probably in there!<\/p>\n

The scale of the chart hit me when I spent five minutes looking for the Enterprise D, expecting it to be among the middle-ish of the pack in size. I had to squint to find it. Loechel’s chart uses a pixel:metre scale of 1:10, making the chart itself 57km tall and 43km wide. That’s a lot of spaceship.<\/p>\n

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“But my favourite isn’t<\/em> on there?” you’re scream. Well, Loechel admitted that he had to draw the line somewhere. “For reasons of image quality and chart organisation, only ships between a minimum of 100 meters and 24000 meters are applicable for this chart, sorry,” he said. And then there’s the TARDIS, which Loechel explains is a special case, “It’s both too large and too small for the chart.”<\/p>\n

The full resolution chart (4268\u2006\u00d7\u20065690) can be found on Loechel’s DeviantArt<\/a>. Just be prepared to set aside a few hours to get lost among the stars. It’s a truly amazing accomplishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dirk Loechel, a visual artist from Germany, loves spaceships. So much so, that he created a beautiful scale chart of hundreds of spacecraft from many of the most popular science fiction IPs, including Warhammer 40k, Star Trek, Gundam, Final Fantasy, and even Spaceballs. If you’ve got a favourite ship, it’s probably in there! The scale… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1285,1005,59,1004],"class_list":["post-16346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-art","tag-dirk-loechel","tag-science-fiction","tag-spaceships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n