Dimensions of Everyday Objects
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The website dimensions.com provides a comprehensive collection of everyday object dimensions, sparking discussion about its curation and potential applications.
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So on that tangent ... you can measure that value for ordinary objects using the "box counting" method[2], to get a notion of objects being "1.3 D" and such.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_dimension
[2]https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ergreen/honors_thesis/dimension.h...