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[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Is the picture to scale in both height and width?

[–] Nanook@lemmy.zip -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It’s missing 4K, better would be if the buildings were half their current size

Or mountain more accurately depicted in size:

[–] schnokobaer@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Those buildings are at least approximately to scale as those 828 meters fit in the top 4611 meters roughly 5 times. If you made them half as tall it would be all wrong.

[–] Nanook@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But you’re only seeing half the mountain.

[–] schnokobaer@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So? That's still obviously accounted for in the scale of the buildings. The buildings are roughly 1/10 of the whole mountain but since only half of the mountain is in frame they are 1/5 of what is in view. It's correct.

[–] Nanook@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Except the bottom half of the mountain isn’t in the picture

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hm? Bottom of the picture is at 4000 m above sea level?