They missed this at the end:<p><a href="https://emojipedia.org/milky-way/" rel="nofollow">https://emojipedia.org/milky-way/</a>
Projects like this remind me why I love the web. So cute!<p>This is an open source project, so everyone commenting with suggestions can just open up a PR: <a href="https://github.com/javierbyte/emoji-to-scale" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/javierbyte/emoji-to-scale</a>
Neat concept.<p>As someone not very up-to-date in Web UI techniques, I was curious as to how the array was being advanced on scroll. Unfortunately, it looks like the answer is basically polling. The code constantly calls window.requestAnimationFrame(), checking window.pageYOffset. This means that the page is constantly doing work, even at idle.<p>Surely the more correct way is to install an onscroll handler or something, right?
I was half-expecting there to be a gigantic jump to the sun emoji and then the galaxy emoji, but that might have presented rather interesting engineering challenges at that point.
Reminds me of an old favorite<p><a href="https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html" rel="nofollow">https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....</a>
Why is the mermaid so huge? The flamingo dancer and running male are smaller. The mermaid is apparently an Amazonian Mermaid, able to hurl the bison next to her to the ground with a flick of her tail.
Is japan the only country that has its own map as a unicode symbol? If so, is there a story behind it? I would bet on compatibility with some regional encoding that had it to begin with.
The other day I was running a web version of Townscapes on my smartphone, and it worked beautifully and smooth. But this one is so laggy and slow that I barely could scroll to Laptop (24cm), and then just stopped.<p>How come a real-time 3D rendering is faster then just displaying a few 2D pictures side by side on a screen? Tech these days is weird.
Funny idea, but lot of these seem off.<p>- A chicken egg is taller than 5cm.<p>- I would say a tulip is bigger than a phone.<p>- The okay hand sign says it's 21 cm.My hands are larger than average, but definitely smaller than 21cm.<p>- A duck isn't bigger than a goat.<p>- An elephant is smaller than a house.
The mosquito looks too small compared to the ant. I guess both can vary in size, but mosquitos I've seen have been larger than ants I've seen. Here's a video with a mosquito and an ant:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW_RUnjLv6c" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW_RUnjLv6c</a>
Cute! Using SVG to render the emoji might make this look even better, see <a href="https://smilecraft.net/emoji.html" rel="nofollow">https://smilecraft.net/emoji.html</a> for a simple example.
12m Cactus<p>I thought this was a mistake but it checks out.<p><a href="https://www.dimensions.com/collection/cactus-cacti" rel="nofollow">https://www.dimensions.com/collection/cactus-cacti</a>
Is it rendering the Emojis using the local emoji set so for example if I'm on an Android phone I will see the Android emojis and if I'm on an iPhone I will see the iPhone emojis?
Some of these don't show up for me (like Saturn). This might work better with a web-font? Although then you'd lose the harmonious platform emojis. I wonder if there's a way to check if a unicode character exists in a font and dynamically substitute, without using canvas.
I want to know why the Astrodome has a soccer field instead of baseball and more importantly, no dome!<p>They even have 6 flags on the stadium ( which I'm assuming is a reference to Six Flags over Texas, could be wrong though) but no baseball field?!?<p>Weekend ruined!<p>Awesome project OP!
Slightly tangential to the author's intent, but is there any way in modern web front ends to discover accurate DPI info of the screen you're on, and therefore at least attempt to create correct physical sizes for UI elements?
The fact we still are using bitmap icons seems really weird to me by the way. We should have switched to SVG as soon as screen resolutions and DPIs (e.g. on handheld devices) started growing.
I’m honestly impressed by how detailed most of the emojis are (on iOS at least), even though they’re mostly just shown at tiny sizes. Nice attention to detail.
Can someone please tell me why I was hypnotised by this? Do you think this ethical to do to another human being looking for a productive afternoon!???!?!?!<p>/s
The popularity of Emoji to me is not good for communication.<p>Instead of careful and clarity in writing, people choose Emoji to respond to what needs to be more clarified.<p>So, if it's hard to express your thought, let's pick an Emoji!?<p>At work, this leads to more trouble in writing. Most of JIRA tickets are mostly non-existent that it's badly written, confusing to the developers and rest of the team.<p>Emoji might be just one reason for that. But anyway, it just shows the trouble on how people have problem in writing communication.<p>Do people overuse Emoji ? I don't think this is about overuse or not, it's about people failed at expressing their thought through writing.