User talk:Wapcaplet
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[edit] Archived talk pages
Eric - you did some pro upgrading to some of my illustrations in Perspective Distortion a few years back.. Thanks again.....my question: Do you use SVG for your line drawings to post to Wiki? They seem to strongly recommend it but notice most (all?) of yours are PNG..... pat kelso
[edit] County Maps
Hi, Wapcaplet, I know you are the one instrumental in the U.S. County Map Project. I am an amateur cartographer. I was wondering if you could inform me as how to make my own state county maps using multiple colors, different colors, etc. in that format. Thanks. --User:JoSePh 27 August 2006 5:46 PM
[edit] Image:WMD.png
I am currently working on Danish Wikipedia about NBC-weapons and would very much like to use your WMD.png illustration. So if you would upload it to Wikimedia Commons it would easy my job a lot. Thank you in advance. --EPO 14:19, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
- In lack of response I have uploaded the file myself (WMD.png). Of course crediting you. --EPO 13:34, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Request
Hi Wapcaplet,
My name is Fernanda Viégas and I have been studying Wikipedia for a while now (you can see a paper I published on the subject here). I would like to ask you a few questions about your activities as a Wikipedia image creator. I am fascinated by the pictorial side of Wikipedia and it would be great to hear about this community from one of its members. Would you be available to participate an email survey? Thanks, — Fernanda 00:40, 4 April 2006 (UTC) | talk
[edit] idea about key images
W,
You and I corresponded a while ago about crypto images (and alien under ice wombats in Greenland). An artistically impaired mind works slowly indeed, from present evidence, but I've had an idea about public private (asymmetric) key represtentations as contrasted with symmetric key representations. One that, futhermore, does not require high resolution nor color, and which can probably be used in small images as well as larger ones. Can I interest you? ww 01:35, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
- W, Glad to hear from you, and that you're willing to consider the wombats again before the Greenland ice melts. I keep telling myself over and over again, "Dubya knows what's going on and he's assured me there's no such thing as global warming, there's no such thing as global warming, ... and if I just tap these shoes together, we'll all go back to Kansas..." If you say it often enough, you can get to this sort of trance state in which your worries recede like the tide, and oh blissss... So, buying a house (at more or less the top of the market?), and working on a kid, and ... You'll not be sleeping for some years to come, you know; the little rug rats cry and cry and fall down and get into trouble and ... I'm impressed, nonetheless. On another subject altogether, there was an article about RAH's house at 1776 Mesa in one of the popular mechanic type magazines back about 50 years or so. It's been scanned and is on one of the RAH fan sites. Interesting to see just how he went about doing it; clever man, and inventive ideas, I think.
- Um, well... Back to mundane work. The chief idea I had was with regard to public and private keys. A private key should be a kind of ghost key (an outline (w/ dashed or dotted outline?) while the public key can be an actually visible one. If bigger than the symmetric keys in a coordinated series of images, they can convey the increased sizes of such keys as well.
- On the random generator business, there is a general sort of pseudo random number generator which has become sort of common, if not precisely standard. At least the Intel chipset RNG and the VIA CPU RNG have more or less the same kind of trickery. It's basically a gating business, where a thermal noise source is used aa the control for one or two (or even three in the case of the Via RNG) square wave oscillators. This raises the possibility of an image of a gate tended by an unreliable sort (drinking as a metaphor for thermal randomness?) with regularly spaced sheep passing through it to be counted on the other side.
- Further conditioning of these random numbers, in practice, is settling down to a combining business of several different and all more or less random sources into a single stream. Each is XORed together after each running through a whitening/bias removal step (think sheep dip, eh? Since it's usually the von Neumann technique, I suppose they can be urbane Hungarian sheep), and the result preserves any randomness (in the information theoretic sense used in crypto) present in any of the sources. This technique allows use of not_so_hot random sources, always hard to arrange for, you know, and even allows for the Adversary to corrupt one (or even more) of the sources before the quality of hte generator itself is lost. For this I had in mind the sequence from Fantasia in which lots of little broom sticks independently deliver water in parallel. Or something like that. Fortuna is a typical design of this type and all seem to be based on some work by Santha and Varizani (see the PRNG article for the reference). How to refelct the increasing randomness as all this goes on might be done by making the tromping numbers dimmer and more indistinct as they pass through each stage.
- But this is too much, I think. Let's leave the digital signature image problem for a later time and more of your artistic ambition. For the moment, you've got a lot on your plate what with kids and houses and ... have you gotten a new pet as well? Best wishes... 67.86.175.54 09:16, 9 July 2006 (UTC) ackggh. logged out again, ww here
[edit] Epicyclic gear ratios.png
Hi Wapcaplet. Your diagram Image:Epicyclic gear ratios.png has been nominated for delisting from Wikipedia:Featured pictures. Not for anything to do with the diagram, but simply because it is too small for current standards. Do you still have the source, and could you possibly upload either (1) a larger version, or (2) a .svg version? SVG is of course preferred nowadays, and I am certain that it would save the image from delisting. Many thanks, ~ Veledan • Talk 17:29, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] I like your images!
I am very impressed with your illustrations. --Midnightcomm 02:43, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Please consider revising the colors you use, otherwise WONDERFUL illustrations!
In the diagram M209_guide_arm_springs.png I am wholly unable to tell which items are red and which are green, which is vital to the meaning of the image. I am severely red-green colorblind. From various tests taken over the years I believe I am about as r/g colorblind as possible from the normal causes. This often leads to trouble interpretting images. For example, Scientific American is just rotten about this in general, and I'm afraid this example of yours is also in the range I simply can't percieve. This is too bad because based on the small sample I've seen your illustrations are truly brilliant and the result of significant effort.
In fact, I actually noticed this only because I was looking at examples of your illustrations, and doing so simply because I found the first ones I noticed (first the cat at "dithering" and then the same cat at "half tone") to be so clear and useful.
I'm not sure how you can best avoid this problem, and would like to point out that there are a variety of forms of colorblindness. I noticed GIMP allows the user to add filtering to the display to help colorblind users, as well as for other purposes (I believe it was GIMP - might have been another program and as I am curring in mid-reinstall of linux I can't check), though I don't know the details nor whether it would help. Perhaps using some form of marking other than color would be best. For example, you could add dots of varying density or other "texture" type markings (think of the paint and drawing programs in early macs, where you could choose different greys - really different amounts of dots - or various cross-hatchings, bricks, scales, etc.). These would be useful to anyone able to see the image in general, I suspect.
In any case, thank you for your great contributions, and please recognise I would not have bothered to ask for these changes had I not found your work quite valuable in the first place.
Is there some place I can post a similar request for illustration creators in general? I'm sure there is, considering wikipedia (though again, considering wikipedia, no telling how many would read it!) but am not sure where to try. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank you!
--Fitzhugh 02:41, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Heart labelled.png listed for deletion
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Heart labelled.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in its not being deleted. Thank you. Fritz Saalfeld (Talk) 17:32, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] SVG request
I was about to redraw it (in SVG), when I looked at the source image for Image:Key-crypto-sideways.png, Image:Cryptography clipart1.png which I noticed says it was created in Inkscape. I would therefore request that you upload the SVG instead as they are preferred over rasters especially when SVG was the original format (all that if you still have the original, that is). Thanks - Рэдхот(t • c • e) 21:53, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah. I can see the images in the files have lots of potential use but I don't really see any for the files itself. I've now extracted the key used in Image:Key-crypto-sideways.png and saved it as a seperate SVG to replace the PNG. But maybe you could upload the two Crypto clipart files to Commons. People might find more use for them there (to use as a source file). - Рэдхот(t • c • e) 11:46, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image:LampFlowchart.png listed for deletion
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:LampFlowchart.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in its not being deleted. Thank you. —Nv8200p talk 12:39, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image:LampFlowchart.dia listed for deletion
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:LampFlowchart.dia, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in its not being deleted. Thank you. —Nv8200p talk 12:39, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Graphics Lab
I saw your name listed on Wikiproject Illustration or the list of graphic artists, and I thought I'd let you know that a Graphics Lab has been created on EN. Based on the highly successful French and German graphics labs, it seeks to better organise and coordinate our graphic design and photo-editing efforts. Up until now, there has been no common space on EN where users could ask for maps, charts and other SVG files to be created. What's more, the Graphics Lab has discussion boards, tips, tools and links; in sum, a good common workspace. Come help us out! The infrastucture is already in place, and now we need participants. :) --Zantastik talk 00:43, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
