SCALE— dimensioning engine

A dimensioning engine

Every line has a number.

Everest goes in — one big number comes out. Then we fed it audio instead of elevation, and the mountain range became a song.

TERRAIN / 01 DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL
SCANNING 0.00 KM
LAT 27.9881 LON 86.9250 ELEV 042 M
TERRAIN DATA RESOLUTION 1.2M SOURCE SRTM
click twice to dimension
Fig. 01 — Digital elevation model · terrain scan fixed survey plane · click twice to dimension
Dimension a sound ↓ How it works

Method — how a drawing gets its number

01 — Input

Elevation, or audio.

A mountain. A canal. A voice memo. Terrain data and sound both arrive as one long, wiggling line — the engine cannot tell them apart.

02 — Draw

Pin the span.

Extension lines drop from the dimension line to the feature. DIN ticks — not arrows — close each end. The line is now a statement.

03 — One big number

The drawing is finished.

8,848.86 m. 193.30 km. 03:47. Everything else on the sheet is commentary. The number is the drawing.

Then we fed it audio instead.

Elevation is a waveform at ~0.01 Hz. Audio is terrain at 44,100 Hz. The engine doesn't care — line in, line out, dimensioned to the same sheet.

Try it — your browser, no upload

Dimension a sound.

Measure your voice · drop a file · or let the engine sing its own three.

Measure your voice. Tap — speak or sing — tap again to draw

Src — — Span — — RMS — — Fig. 02 — N.T.S.