🤗 = 1 byte. Different display sizes.

2D image 3.00 MiB

3,145,728 bytes

3,145,728 balls

3D volume 3.00 GiB

3,221,225,472 bytes

3,221,225,472 balls

1,024× more bytes in the volume.

Storage math

2D image3.00 MiB1024² × 3 × 8/8

3D volume3.00 GiB1024³ × 3 × 8/8

3 MiB = 3,145,728 bytes; 3 GiB = 3,221,225,472 bytes.

Totals are exact; the boxes show a sample of individual byte balls, drawn larger for the image and smaller for the volume. Ball sizes and visible counts are illustrative, not a shared area scale. Each ball denotes one byte, never a KiB, MiB or GiB. Falling and bouncing are procedural; billions of particles are not simulated individually.