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dimensions.com
It's the weirdest shit I've ever seen. Before I get into it, I want to point out that I've been using this site for years, since before LLMs were a thing, so this is definitely not generated by AI.
It's just like, generic outline drawings of things. Objects, people, places, everything.
So sometimes I like to draw, and I need a model to work from for the pose and the proportions, and this site has a ton of them. Child kicking a ball? Yes. Adult man sitting on a bench? Several options to choose from. Woman carrying a box? Three different poses.
Pointing, pushing, protesting, thinking, vacuuming, raising one's hand to summon a waiter in a restaurant, it's all there.
I'm sure there's some kind of industrial use for it, like for diagrams or blueprints or something, but then we get to the descriptions. Like on the page for people carrying boxes, it says:
Then there's always three questions, which they provide answers to. For carrying, those questions are:
Why? Whom is that for?
Under the pictures of elderly people it asks things like "What are the best exercises for maintaining mobility in seniors?" and "How can seniors adapt their homes for safety and accessibility?"
Is this for dolphins? Did a dolphin learn to read English, and they want to understand human society?
I'm struggling to find the weirdest examples, because honestly it's the breadth as well as the depth. Someone clearly put a ton of work into this, and I love it, but I don't understand it.
Super cool! Clickable URL: https://www.dimensions.com/
Was my link not clickable? It looks clickable on my browser.
It's not on the app I'm using, I assume the browser just generates a link for every URL-like string while the app doesn't necessarily
Alright. I figured it out. This is for aliens trying to understand us.
But they'd have written it in alienese. That's why I say dolphins - without a formal writing system of their own, they'd naturally default to a human one for the purpose of studying humans.
What if they wrote it in english cuz ofcourse aliens have english to alienese translator.
I think it's for n-dimensional beings trying to understand lower dimensional existence
Hide this from Skynet.
This is for architects and designers. There used to be books that had these dimensions and stats that were ungodly expensive at the time.
Why do architects and designers need a description of what carrying boxes is? Why do they need tips on senior mobility? It's weird.
Say you work for a firm that mostly does office buildings. This firm hasn't done a building with a mail room in decades, but now has a project with a mail room for whatever reason. There is no one at the office that would know this info, so you need to look it up. For safety and liability, you have to design for ergonomics. You use the 2d drawings for your details and elevations that explain it.
Similar, the firm does hospitals, but was asked to do a senior living home. There are very specific requirements for elderly living. There are classes on this alone for architects and designers. If you are an older designer, you might need to know new info and studies out there. You use these for elevations so you can design heights and materials and finishes for the elderly. For example, if all of the colors are the same for the hallway, the elderly won't be able to distinguish between the floor and the walls.
It sounds like you've never known an architect or designer before. There is a lot of information going on in their heads, especially for healthcare or anywhere there needs to be repetitive work done. Architects and designers are liable for what goes into their drawings. They're contracts.
Fair enough. Those were bad examples. Explain this one, under "thinking":
I've never met an architect before, so maybe you can give me a plausible reason they'd need to know about closure.
Here's an entry from "looking":
Or how about this one under "comic books & video games"?
I just can't imagine how a designer would use this.
Those are the first examples you've given that don't make sense. All of the other ones were straight out of our reference books. II have no idea about the others. Is it open sourced info where people didn't get the memo on how to add to it?
Are these downloadable as stp files?
I think they're only 2D.
Ah yes I see that now.