Figure 4. The ‘How big was Big Al?’
interactive body mass display, made in Adobe
Flash. In a succession of screens the user is able
to select from a range of different sized body,
leg and respiratory volumes and until they have
completely reconstructed Big Al. Each segment
has a mass attached (using data from our own
scientific publications) and the final screen
reveals the body mass of Big Al based on their
particular combination of chosen segment
volumes.