So how big do you think SL is now?
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Kelli May
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05-26-2008 13:28
From: Keira Wells <snip>
According to the economic statistics page, there are 17,294 islands owned as of today (May MTD number).
17,294 x 65,536 = 1,133,379,584
So, as of approximately now, there are 1 billion, 133 million, 379 thousand, and 584 square meters.
I don't know if the island number includes mainland. It seems like it might, but I'm not sure.
Either way, that's a hell of a lot of space. Only when you express it like that. Less than 1500 square kilometres. Still sounds a lot? If it was a square piece of land, 38km across. About the length of a marathon, that an athlete could cover in under 3 hours or a fit hiker could cross in a day.
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Keira Wells
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05-26-2008 13:31
From: Kelli May Only when you express it like that. Less than 1500 square kilometres. Still sounds a lot? If it was a square piece of land, 38km across. About the length of a marathon, that an athlete could cover in under 3 hours or a fit hiker could cross in a day. Still sounds like a lot to me, yesh. Saying it like that makes it seem small, of course, because they are smaller numbers. But to me, 1500 km seems like a lot (And yeah, I know, I'm biased by miles, but oh well) That's what, 3 times the size of Guam?
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Uvas Umarov
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05-30-2008 09:07
From: Kelli May Out by a factor of 1000, I believe. 1445 square km, or a little smaller than Greater London or Houston. That'd put SL 182nd in terms of largest nations by area (just behind Guadeloupe). Guadeloupe eh? Guess my calculations were off. Watch out Luxembourg here we come!!
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Ceka Cianci
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05-30-2008 09:28
well i know for a fact it's alot biggy than my screen and it didn't used to be  |
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Lindal Kidd
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05-30-2008 09:35
You don't need to know the overall dimensions of the grid.
If there are 22,051 regions, each one 65,536 sq meters, the total area of the grid is
1,445,134,336 sq meters, or 1,445 square kilometers. By comparison, New York City is about 1,200 square kilometers in size, not counting bodies of water (and of course, the SL figure DOES count a large water area).
The reason SL appears so empty is simple. If, say, we have an average concurrency of 50,000, that means an average of just over two avatars per sim. Of course, we aren't spread out evenly, but tend to clump at popular places and events. This leads to most sims being empty most of the time.
[EDIT: I see a number of folks beat me to it.]
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Meade Paravane
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05-30-2008 09:39
From: Lindal Kidd If there are 22,051 regions, each one 65,536 sq meters, the total area of the grid is 1,445,134,336 sq meters, or 1,445 square kilometers. By comparison, New York City is about 1,200 square kilometers in size, not counting bodies of water (and of course, the SL figure DOES count a large water area)...] See also: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2147rank.html for more size comparisons.
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Keira Wells
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05-30-2008 09:44
The problem is, of course, that SL's sizes aren't exactly on-par with RL. You can make something more or less to scale with New York city without using up most of the grid, I'm pretty sure.
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Desmond Shang
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05-30-2008 10:41
Don't forget, scale is a little off.
Everyone is 6 feet tall easy, and all attachments are scaled accordingly.
So does that make our world smaller?
I don't think metric meters are the right scale measurement.
Maybe gridmeters (= 0.8 m) or maybe secondlife Units or something.
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Malachi Petunia
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05-30-2008 10:51
How big is SL? About the size of a few dozen racks in a datacenter. A generous estimate (ignoring plenums) would then be 1400m^2 or about a thrid of an acre. I could walk the length and breadth of this in about a minute.
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2k Suisei
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05-30-2008 11:44
From: Malachi Petunia How big is SL? About the size of a few dozen racks in a datacenter. A generous estimate (ignoring plenums) would then be 1400m^2 or about a thrid of an acre. I could walk the length and breadth of this in about a minute. It's actually a few data centers that are many miles apart. So you'd have to catch a plane to get from one side to the other. |
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Yosef Okelly
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05-30-2008 12:06
From: Malachi Petunia How big is SL? About the size of a few dozen racks in a datacenter. A generous estimate (ignoring plenums) would then be 1400m^2 or about a thrid of an acre. I could walk the length and breadth of this in about a minute. Something like this?  I would say 100 square meters or so. |
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Brenda Connolly
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05-30-2008 13:06
SL is 22 inches, when measured diagonally.
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Keira Wells
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05-30-2008 13:09
From: Brenda Connolly SL is 22 inches, when measured diagonally. *My* SL is only 19 inches...no fair!
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2k Suisei
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05-30-2008 13:13
SL is bigger than Britney Spears and just as unstable.
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Brenda Connolly
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05-30-2008 13:54
From: Keira Wells *My* SL is only 19 inches...no fair! Well now that you have graduated, you can go out and get a nice job and buy yourself a bigger Second Life
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05-30-2008 14:41
Counting maximum x and y distances from the regions near the borders of sl with this script, that tells the position relative to "Da Boom", distance in m: vector vecrel; //sum of llgetpos and llgetregioncorner default {state_entry(){llSetText("Touch me to get your position", <1,1,1>, 2.0); }touch_start(integer total_number){ vecrel = llGetRegionCorner() + llGetPos(); llWhisper(0, "llGetRegionCorner() is:"+(string)vecrel ); //for debugging before vector addition vecrel.x = vecrel.x - 256000;vecrel.y = vecrel.y - 256000; llWhisper (0, "Position relative to <0,0,0> of 'Da Boom': "+ (string)llRound(vecrel.x) +", "+ (string)llRound(vecrel.y) +", "+ (string)llRound(vecrel.z) + "."  ; llWhisper(0, "Position relative to <0,0,0> of 'Da Boom':"+(string)vecrel ); //faster but unformatted output }} Know how many regions there are within that area to calculate to what % it is full with regions. |
