The periodic table, colour coded by the likely origin of each element

Re:The periodic table, colour coded by the likely origin of ... by Jedd on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @08:25PM (#24138716)

Oh, I expect people come to HN to see interesting things.

"It would be nice to ..." may not fit into that category.

Anyway, as I understand it, on an A4 infographic, you'd be expecting to see one pie chart (H) taking up 3/4 of the page.

Almost all the other 1/4 of the page would be taken up by an He circle.

Then you'd have a (still recognisable as a circle) for Oxygen, at about 6mm wide, the next would be 4mm wide for Carbon.

After that I'd guess we're at ~1mm pie charts for Neon, Iron, Nitrogen.

After the first 7 pie charts, each subsequent pie chart would be the size of a pixel (or sub-mm on a printed page). So it'd look like a hundred or so tiny dots.

Have I misunderstand the visualisation you're describing?

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Re:The periodic table, colour coded by the likely origin of ... by willis936 on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @09:14PM (#24139013)

You seem to miss the point of HN, or in fact the very concept of communities in general.

Why do you think the graphic would be printed? If printed, why would it be smaller than 20 feet across? I am confused by these unreasonable assumptions.

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Re:The periodic table, colour coded by the likely origin of ... by Jedd on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @11:42PM (#24139753)

Yes, quite. I certainly don't have your level of experience in HN and communities, so I appreciate your patience.

In any case, it sounds like you have two things:

a) an interest in having this visualisation, and

b) access to all the tools & data needed to make it.

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