Wikipedia:Picture peer review/U.S. flag folding animation

U.S. flag folding animation[edit]

Very accurate and detailed animation on the proper way to fold the U.S. flag. Although the image is not of very high resolution, the image should be able to be easily recreated in a larger format if necessary, which would be suitable as a featured picture.

Nominated by: –Dream out loud (talk) 16:48, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

It's definitely informative, but I think it should be slowed just a tad. Elephantissimo (talk) 23:23, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with Elephantissimo; it goes by too fast to really make sense of what's happening. Have the line come up right away if you wish, but increase the time between it appearing and the fold, by at least 100%. Matt Deres (talk) 17:07, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Personally I like the image (although I agree it should be slowed down) but I'm not a massive fan of the grey colour that dominates the for most of the animation. What would people think about replacing it with just an outline to represent the initial size of the flag? Guest9999 (talk) 21:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Sounds like a good idea to me. Elephantissimo (talk) 16:32, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I slowed down the image. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 21:38, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I created this version of the animation; thanks for providing that warm fuzzy feeling of knowledge that it is appreciated. At the time of creation I wasn't really aware that Wikipedia could resize animations or that there would be any use for a high-res one. However, I did construct it at 800px wide; unfortunately I no longer have the software to read the source. If someone does have Fireworks, I have uploaded the source to http://willhirsch.co.uk/stuff/usflag_fold_source.png . I recommend changing the grey background to a transparent channel in light of other conventions that I have since become aware of. In light of yet another, I'm very tempted to rewrite the image as a procedural animation in SVG, so might have an even higher-res, and much more versatile, version for you some time soon. By the way, the Commons has an image with the same name which is an old revision of this one. The newer one should probably be uploaded there and this one speedied. BigBlueFish (talk) 00:32, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't think a transparent background should be used because MediaWiki doesn't render transparent GIFs very well. I found this out when I came across Image:727db.gif, which had very hard edges with a transparent background. Once it was changed to an opaque white background, it appeared much smoother. –Dream out loud (talk) 00:38, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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