Show HN: Which animal shares your body fat percentage?

Posted by Atallapr 10/24/2024

Show HN: Which animal shares your body fat percentage?(animalbodyfatmatch.netlify.app)

I recently came across a youtube video about animals and their average body fat percentages.I thought it would be fun to compare my body fat to different animals and see which one I most resemble. This idea spiraled into a two-hour project, where I turned the data from the video into a JSON file, asked chatgpt to help create a UI, and deployed the whole thing on netlify. Pretty cool how fast we can quickly build random projects like this 10x faster with llms!

Now that I’m typing this, I still have no clue why I made this... but here it is. Enjoy!

142 points | 94 commentspage 2

rayxi271828 10/24/2024|

Men and women will have very different body fat percentage level for similar look. In general it's something like women's = men's +8-9%?

willcipriano 10/24/2024|

A man is considered lean around 15%, a woman is lean around 20%.

Men: https://images.app.goo.gl/Gn5pBBN2FB22YGsz7

Women: https://images.app.goo.gl/wAP5VDfCzKiWWYwG9

Atallapr 10/24/2024||

I am seeing a lot of cool feature ideas on this thread which is amazing! I just made the repo public if anyone wants to look at the json or put in a PR with some edits :) https://github.com/amittallapragada/animal-bodyfat-calculato...

abraxas 10/24/2024||

"Your closest match is a lion".... alright, I'll continue drinking coffee and staring at the screen all day then.

zamadatix 10/24/2024||

I think it'd be cool if the input was to calculate the % (if you didn't already know) and the area below was just a timeline-like output with the different animals marked along the way. It seems most people here are more interested in exploring the output space than finding their specific animal match.

bogtog 10/24/2024||

I clicked through all the ones from 1% (crab) to 25% (sheep). I honestly can't see any pattern here

grumpwagon 10/24/2024||

Between this today and one square minesweeper yesterday, we're batting 1.000 on funny dumb projects that make me laugh. I don't know why you made this either, but I'm glad you did, thanks!

fakedang 10/24/2024|

Here's another that I discovered today: not a hobby project but a personal webpage that got me rotfl. https://cookie.engineer/

BigFnTelly 10/24/2024||

What's the source on the images? are they AI-generated?

Aphataeros 10/24/2024||

I was wondering the same thing, and checking the images they are hosted on https://craiyon.com/

Craiyon - Create AI Art with our free AI image generator.

amelius 10/24/2024|||

There's a crayon in the bottom right corner of each of the images. Perhaps someone recognizes it?

ceroxylon 10/24/2024|||

The crayon is indeed a big hint: https://www.craiyon.com/

Atallapr 10/24/2024||||

Yea they're all AI generated! I used this site https://www.craiyon.com/ They have a free tool for image generation

Gasp0de 10/24/2024||

They look AI generated to me.

topherjaynes 10/24/2024||

Whoa, I was shocked that an elephant was sub 10% body fat...now to call some one an elephant and explain it's a compliment!

spuz 10/24/2024||

I consider myself slim but so I was pretty amused to see my spirit animal is the pig. Great idea.

Gasp0de 10/24/2024|

I was completely confused to see that a Walrus has only 2% points more body fat than a Gecko.

wormlord 10/24/2024|

Geckos store fat in their tails

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.UYKInXyy0_Vhs1qqTziRGwAAAA?rs=...

shaky-carrousel 10/24/2024||

That's one big fat tail, if I've ever seen one.

More comments...