You mean the inverse square law? Imagining a square law here, gravity would increase as objects got further away, and objects would appear four times larger at twice the distance… Weird.
It’s not talking about gravity, but about weight. Normally, any living being or construct is limited in size, because cross-section, which determines structural integrity, grows with the square of the size, but volume and thus weight grows with the cube. Now with levitation magic, on the other hand…
the square-cube law refers to how if a thing gets uniformly scaled, its surface area scales by the square of the factor, but its volume scales by the cube. if you grew a human, say, to 10 times its normal height, the cross sectional area of their long bones would increase by a factor of 100, while their weight would increase by a factor of 1000. this is a thing that crops up all over discussions about fantastic architecture, engineering, and biology.
You mean the inverse square law? Imagining a square law here, gravity would increase as objects got further away, and objects would appear four times larger at twice the distance… Weird.
It’s not talking about gravity, but about weight. Normally, any living being or construct is limited in size, because cross-section, which determines structural integrity, grows with the square of the size, but volume and thus weight grows with the cube. Now with levitation magic, on the other hand…
the square-cube law refers to how if a thing gets uniformly scaled, its surface area scales by the square of the factor, but its volume scales by the cube. if you grew a human, say, to 10 times its normal height, the cross sectional area of their long bones would increase by a factor of 100, while their weight would increase by a factor of 1000. this is a thing that crops up all over discussions about fantastic architecture, engineering, and biology.