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So here's the deal. I made an infographic as a ways to show people examples of certain levels of hollowness:
Due to the variable nature of other important shapes such as cylinders, rectangular prisms, pyramids, cones, etc, I've only elected to include the shapes that have equal sides regardless of how big or small you make them: cubes (presented in both 2D and 3D) and spheres. Each red area indicating hollowness is measured specifically to where an individual dimension (the radius of the sphere or the length of one side of a cube) would theoretically match what is needed to attain a certain volume. I picked the most commonly used hollowness values here, which are 60%, 70%, 80%, and 90%.
The goal of this thread here is to, well, just implement this hollowness infographic into the Calculations page. This would have no effect on any calculations made prior to this infographic, but would better influence future hollowness-based calculations and calculation revisions made with a visual rule-of-thumb. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words or something like that.
Due to the variable nature of other important shapes such as cylinders, rectangular prisms, pyramids, cones, etc, I've only elected to include the shapes that have equal sides regardless of how big or small you make them: cubes (presented in both 2D and 3D) and spheres. Each red area indicating hollowness is measured specifically to where an individual dimension (the radius of the sphere or the length of one side of a cube) would theoretically match what is needed to attain a certain volume. I picked the most commonly used hollowness values here, which are 60%, 70%, 80%, and 90%.
The goal of this thread here is to, well, just implement this hollowness infographic into the Calculations page. This would have no effect on any calculations made prior to this infographic, but would better influence future hollowness-based calculations and calculation revisions made with a visual rule-of-thumb. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words or something like that.
