Draw an iceberg and see how it will float! We often draw icebergs vertically, with a little tip above the water, and a giant part under the water. This doesn’t work, it wouldn’t float, because of mass distribution. If you want to have fun, draw your best iceberg, and see how it would actually float!

https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html

By @josh

@stephaniewalter This looks like it would be a fun science class activity.

@stephaniewalter i used it countless times in meetings. most of the versions used in slides are falling over ;)

cc @josh

maybe its time for a podcast episode about physics vs. psychology of iceberg models?
@NadjaBoehlmann @Alisa @mariakuehn @karen

@stephaniewalter

⚠️ Attention please Procrastination ahead! ⚠️

@stephaniewalter
So fun!!

@stephaniewalter

I painted Santa Claus' house. You may know, the one you draw with one pen stroke without painting a line double.

https://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/house.html

See, Santa is save!
I guess, "Floatingpoint units" are the cause (and my not accurate drawing) 😂

@derralf @josh @NadjaBoehlmann @Alisa @mariakuehn @karen would 10000% listen to it!!! yeees

@superball aaww the best kind of icebergs

@dan613 I teach earth and environmental science classes sometimes (US middle/high school), and I am definitely going to use this when I teach it next! Thanks @stephaniewalter for sharing this!

@stephaniewalter hah

(Thank you for this great tool!)

@stephaniewalter There's something wrong with the simulation. Draw triangle in top-left corner. Watch the crazyness. Draw same triangle in the middle, and it behaves differently.

@stephaniewalter
However the fun little program requires:

- cloudflare: you afraid of ddos?
- google fonts, gstatic : sigh... thats just basic text.
- jsdelivr: why dont you host this?
- twitter: why do we need them to run some js from musk?

... why use all this? This is a simple tool. All that resources are not good web hygiene.

I'm not forced to use this tool sure, but it abuses all the visitors that are just looking for fun. Not cool.

@stephaniewalter I love this! Thanks for sharing.

@pavel https://stephaniewalter.design/faq-frequently-asked-questions/#technical-problem

@f4grx @stephaniewalter I read this and I agree. But my first thought (ADHD) was: I think an iceberg murdered this person's loved ones.

Most folks cobble stuff together and seek a thing that does the job. Some folks are malicious. This creates a confusing landscape but it's also all I've ever known the web to be.

Beating on something that brings joy to people doesn't get them to heed your words. I also don't have a magic solution to get folks to pay attention.

@Myriam @stephaniewalter I know. But if devs were globally attentive to this, the web would be much less the trash fire we have today.