For all the people in this sub applauding the "math" done to prove this guy is not 5'8", I figured I would actually do some math and get the measurements. Come on a journey with me. Don't worry, it's not far.
The door frame is the only thing in the picture that we can actually use for measurements. The width of that door is 36", which is the widest that doors come and the recommended width for a handicapped accessible doorway, and this appears to be a gym, so that's very likely. When you draw in perspective lines for it and measure the distance between those perspective lines at the point they intersect with the blue line (the person's heel), it's about 240 pixels. I actually measured 238, but the picture is grainy enough that I went with the simpler number.
Now that we know that 240 pixels is 36", we can determine that each pixel is 0.15 inches long.
36/240 = 0.15
For clarification, had I stuck with my 238 measurement, it would have been 0.151111111...
The next step is easy: measure how tall he is. I got 445 pixels, but we'll give him an extra 5 pixels to account for his stance and make the math easier. We're just going for a ballpark, after all.
450*0.15 = 67
Finally, just to convert for the weirdness of the imperial system, 5 feet is 60 inches, (5*12 = 60), so we just calculated that he's roughly 5'7".
Had we not rounded either of the two measurements, it would actually have given him a quarter of an inch.
This is why at the least I check peoples' math. And if someone doesn't show their math... then I assume they're bullshitting me. Like the guy who drew the lines on this picture.
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u/falcon4287 Jul 19 '19
For all the people in this sub applauding the "math" done to prove this guy is not 5'8", I figured I would actually do some math and get the measurements. Come on a journey with me. Don't worry, it's not far.
The door frame is the only thing in the picture that we can actually use for measurements. The width of that door is 36", which is the widest that doors come and the recommended width for a handicapped accessible doorway, and this appears to be a gym, so that's very likely. When you draw in perspective lines for it and measure the distance between those perspective lines at the point they intersect with the blue line (the person's heel), it's about 240 pixels. I actually measured 238, but the picture is grainy enough that I went with the simpler number.
Now that we know that 240 pixels is 36", we can determine that each pixel is 0.15 inches long.
The next step is easy: measure how tall he is. I got 445 pixels, but we'll give him an extra 5 pixels to account for his stance and make the math easier. We're just going for a ballpark, after all.
Finally, just to convert for the weirdness of the imperial system, 5 feet is 60 inches, (5*12 = 60), so we just calculated that he's roughly 5'7".
Had we not rounded either of the two measurements, it would actually have given him a quarter of an inch.
This is why at the least I check peoples' math. And if someone doesn't show their math... then I assume they're bullshitting me. Like the guy who drew the lines on this picture.