Your first lineup in five minutes

Sizewise opens with the template The tallest buildings and towers: eight structures from the Great Pyramid of Giza to the Burj Khalifa, drawn on one ground line at one true scale.

Add objects

On the left, under Add objects, type into Search — for example whale, tower or Mars. The list below shows matching objects with their size; press one to add it to the lineup. The Group menu narrows the list to one group such as Animals, Stars or Galaxies and beyond.

To add yourself, fill in Your own object (for example Me) and Size (for example 1.8 m or 5 ft 9 in) and press Add. Sizes take metric and imperial units, from pm to light years.

Arrange the lineup

Under In the lineup each object has buttons to move it up or down and to remove it. Order sorts the drawing Smallest to largest or keeps it As entered. A lineup holds at most 24 objects.

Zoom

The slider above the drawing sets the Visible height. Press the minus and plus buttons (or the + and − keys) to zoom out and in, and the fit button (or 0) to fit the largest object again. Objects too small to see are marked with a circle; objects taller than the view get a bar with an arrow.

A numbered legend under the drawing names every object with its size.

Check the sources

The table Sizes and sources lists each object with its Measure (height, length, diameter, wingspan or summit elevation), its Size, how many times larger it is than the previous one (× previous) and its Source: the Wikidata item and the value as stated there. Follow the link to see the statement and its references.

The sentence under the table sums up the range, for example how many times the size of the smallest object the largest one is.

Next steps

• From an atom to the universe shows the pairs drawing for huge ranges.
• Export → Drawing as SVG or Drawing as PNG saves the picture; Table as CSV saves the sizes and sources.