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[Zokinin]

I was curious about how large bronze colossi actually were, since it will matter when multi-cell creatures are implemented. So here are some calculations (in spoilers so you can skip them if you want):

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If you assume humans are arbitrarily 1 tile tall (as the standard),
then
Bronze Colossus DF bodysize:20,000,000
Human DF bodysize:70000
Human actual height: around 2 meters (male),
so 1 tile = 2 meters.
If you assume that bodysize is roughly volume and not mass,
then kx^3=human volume where
x = linear scaling factor
k = ratio of volume between unit human and unit cube (unit human being a human with height 1)
SO k*(2^3)=70000 for human with height 2m
k = 8750
8750(x^3)=20,000,000
x=13.17 or 13 meters for simplicity is the height of a bronze colossus.

NOW, using this 13 meter height and (toad-edit: dead link removed) (don't complain the BC IS a statue after all)
13 meter height = 8 heads
1 head = 1.625m
3.8 meters wide
and about 1.6 meters deep.
 

From these conclusions I found that a bronze colossus would be 13 meters tall, 3.8 meters wide, and 1.6 meters deep. With my previous assumption of a human being about 2 meters tall and that being the length of one tile, a bronze colossus would be:
7 z-levels high,
2 tiles wide and
1 tile deep.
This is a pretty rough estimation. Just wanted to know what your thoughts might be.

Edit: changed image to be a url its HUGE when i linked it.

[Oxinabox]

this would mean than broze colosi, are not threat to a fortress, unless, destoryable natural walls are implimented before multitile monsters.

The dwarves are basically ants to it.
Well mice at least.

[ungulateman]

A single tile contains both infinitely large and infinitely small amounts of space, so your calculations are off.

By infinity.

[andfhe]

A single tile contains both infinitely large and infinitely small amounts of space, so your calculations are off.

By infinity.

Yes. Infinity. That's a lot.

[NW_Kohaku]

The 70,000 bodysize is actually an average that assumes a 70kg average human, and a density of 1 kg/l, the same as water.  You can think of bodysize as a measurement of volume in ml. 

So basically, the BC is 300 times the volume of the average human.

2 meters, however, is not the right baseline measurement to use, as you want to find the average height of someone who weighs 70 kg, and 2 meters tall is unusually tall.

Using some google searches on height-weight charts, I'd say your 70kg person comes up being about 1.75 meters tall.

So, k should be 13061

I get roughly 11.53 meters height.

Now then, according to my own calculations, the size of a tile should be approximately 3m cube.  This is based off of the fact that every z-level is capable of being a single "story" of a building, using roughly human creatures. (See here: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=61215.0)

This makes a Bronze Collossus fit in a 4-meter tall stack of single tiles horizontally while standing fully upright.  (Technically, it would spill out to the sides by a small amount, but this could be negligible.)

A single tile contains both infinitely large and infinitely small amounts of space, so your calculations are off.

By infinity.

This exists solely because of the ban on multi-tile creatures.  It can be changed.