Weight of an SW

[DocRick]

Any mathematical geniuses out here? How much would an SW weigh? Say, a six inch tall average build woman. She would be 1/12 the height, but also 1/12 the width and depth. I would figure only a few ounces, but I failed Algebra II.

Anyone?

[scidram]

If she's reduced to 1/12 in all three dimensions, then her mass/weight will be reduced to 1/12 * 1/12 * 1/12 or 1/1728. That's 0.0579% of her original mass/weight.

For every 100 lbs. of her original weight, her shrunken weight would be 0.0579 lbs, which is less than one ounce (0.0625 lbs).

[ShrinkMaster]

https://www.giantessworld.net/convertor.html

Also works with SW.

[DocRick]

If she's reduced to 1/12 in all three dimensions, then her mass/weight will be reduced to 1/12 * 1/12 * 1/12 or 1/1728. That's 0.0579% of her original mass/weight.

For every 100 lbs. of her original weight, her shrunken weight would be 0.0579 lbs, which is less than one ounce (0.0625 lbs).

Sounds right to me.

[Prof Sai]

That's right. (1/12)³ = 1/1728.

A shrunken person might not be fully proportional though. Breasts and heads are commonly larger, and so she might weigh more than the numbers indicate.

[sallyfourth]

If she's reduced to 1/12 in all three dimensions, then her mass/weight will be reduced to 1/12 * 1/12 * 1/12 or 1/1728. That's 0.0579% of her original mass/weight.

For every 100 lbs. of her original weight, her shrunken weight would be 0.0579 lbs, which is less than one ounce (0.0625 lbs).

Thank you. This is exactly correct. No surprise there. Good authors learn this, great authors apply it.

A simple example is to take your character and reduce her to 1/2 (,5) her original height. To determine her weight you take her starting weight multiplied by 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2, which is 1/8 or .125. So June Kenney was reduced from 5' 2" and 108 lb to a very adorable 31", she would up 13.5 lbs.

Seeya

[DocRick]

That's right. (1/12)³ = 1/1728.

A shrunken person might not be fully proportional though. Breasts and heads are commonly larger, and so she might weigh more than the numbers indicate.

Only in your world. Not complaining though.

[Little Sally]

That's right. (1/12)³ = 1/1728.

A shrunken person might not be fully proportional though. Breasts and heads are commonly larger, and so she might weigh more than the numbers indicate.

Only in your world. Not complaining though.

Carrying those enormous boobs around would weigh heavily on any little woman!

[DocRick]

That's right. (1/12)³ = 1/1728.

A shrunken person might not be fully proportional though. Breasts and heads are commonly larger, and so she might weigh more than the numbers indicate.

Only in your world. Not complaining though.

Carrying those enormous boobs around would weigh heavily on any little woman!

Exactly. I'm sympathetic to the plight of tiny women. I'm always willing to give them a ........hand.

[Prof Sai]

Breasts are a unique biological feature in that they only directly benefit others. A woman can use them to feed babies, and attract men, but if she is alone, they are useless burdens to her. Breasts are centrally about the need for people to work together.

[krastinus]

To give a little perspective...

For a base, I'll assume a 5'4", 120 lb woman.

At 1/2 scale, you've got a 2' 8" woman, weighing 15 lbs. About the size of a small dog or a large cat.

At 1/3 scale, she's about 1' 9" and close to 4.5 lbs. Around the size of a rabbit or a monkey.

At 1/4 scale, she's 1' 4" and less than two pounds.

At 1/5 scale, she's 1' 1" and about 1 lb, roughly the same size as a squirrel.

At 1/6 scale, she will be at the scale of a Barbie doll, less than 10 1/2 inches tall and weighing less than 9 ounces. She will be about the same size as a common rat if you want to write of the epic war betwixt Barbies and Rats. For fans of Sally Reynolds, this is usually the smallest she makes her shrunken women.

At 1/8 scale she will be 8 inches tall and weigh less than 4 ounces. Size will be comparable to a hamster. For those who remember the old Mego dolls from the 1970s and early 1980s, she'd be able to borrow one of their costumes.

At 1/10 scale she be 6.4 inches tall and weigh less than 2 ounces.

At 1/12 scale she will be 5 and 1/3 inches tall and weigh a little over an ounce. This is the scale of Lilliput from Gulliver's Travels and is a pretty common scale for SW stories. This is about the right size to fit in a typical dollhouse.

At 1/16 scale, she would be 4 inches tall and weigh less than half an ounce. She would be around the same size as a field mouse if you wanted to do some kind of Rats of NIMH crossover.

At 1/24 scale (more or less) she would be 3 inches tall and a fraction of an ounce. This is the preferred size for the Minimizer. At the size she'll be smaller than a mouse and much smaller than your typical woodland creature.

Note that real world physics and physiology, smaller creatures are proportionately stronger and consequently more agile and better climber than larger creatures. Likewise, speed does not decrease in direct proportion to size. Also, smaller creatures are less vulnerable to falls than larger creatures.

There's also a useful guide here for how a shrunken person of a given size would appear on a normal sized hand - https://www.deviantart.com/kindii/art/H ... -697306633.

[Prof Sai]

Note that real world physics and physiology, smaller creatures are proportionately stronger and consequently more agile and better climber than larger creatures. Likewise, speed does not decrease in direct proportion to size. Also, smaller creatures are less vulnerable to falls than larger creatures.

That's right. I think someone worked out that someone who was three inches tall would be able to jump several feet into the air. So an SW climbing up a full sized person to look them in the eye is actually realistic.

[Dr.Minimizer]

Watch "Epic" if you want to see this in practice.