Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ambigram rotating.gif

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[edit] Ambigram rotating.gif

A good example of the subject ambigram is this image itself, with bonus animation to good effect. - Bevo 19:21, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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  • Nominate and support. - Bevo 19:21, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Support, Interesting Electricmoose- Electrifying 19:53, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Oppose, this animation seems a bit obnoxious and rather uninteresting. --Spangineer (háblame) 22:59, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
  • Oppose - Not particularly interesting. -- AllyUnion (talk) 06:04, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Oppose, the font is too difficult to read. --Silversmith Hewwo 09:51, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • You do know what an ambigram is..... right? --brian0918™ 18:15, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
      • Yes, no need to be sarky. I just found when I tried to confirm that each letter was there, it was difficult due to the font and the fact that it moves too frequently. I also have the pic of the day on my userpage, and would find such a frequently moving image highly annoying. --Silversmith Hewwo 19:22, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
        • Yeah, it probably would work better if it sat there for a while before rotating. --brian0918™ 03:29, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
          • I've slowed it down from 2 to 4 seconds. Still too fast? Splarka 04:48, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
            • I think that speed is much better. Changing to Neutral. --Silversmith Hewwo 09:00, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Support - beautifully drawn and very interesting (the same idea works if you handwrite "chump" in a certain way) - Adrian Pingstone 12:35, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Support, clearly shows what an ambigram is. Animation is a nice plus. Mgm|(talk) 16:03, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
  • Oppose. In fact, I have a bias against animated pictures in general. I find it annoying to have something move when I did not ask it. Also, but perhaps I'm asking too much, an antialiased image would be better. --Bernard Helmstetter 18:27, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • I created it (and the larger version) in 2 colors to keep the file size down. I believe wikipedia antialiases it when you resize it, so one could use the larger one shrunk to the size of the smaller one and get an antialiasing: [[Image:Ambigram_rotating_big.gif|180px]]. However, I agree that animated gifs are obnoxious in improper contexts. Splarka 19:27, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Neutral Demonstrates concept well, but the font combined with the animation actually makes it more dificult to read. --CVaneg 19:10, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • I see your point about the animation obscuring the illustration, without a static reference to freely study. Perhaps there needs to be two pictures in place in the article ambigram. One static, the other the same image, but animated. - Bevo 20:37, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Neutral. Author here. I've seen ambigrams of the word 'ambigram' online before, but none were free-use, so I slapped this one together in a few hours for the article. Sidenote: I originally had a {{pd}} tag on it but at one point the tag said "you can't release things to the public domain, change to {{CopyrightedFreeUse}}" so I did, but now I see the policy has changed again, so I changed it back to public domain. The neutral vote is because I am not sure if it is feature quality. I'll let others decide. Splarka 19:27, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • The policy never changed. It was just someone who didn't agree with the PD terms. Mgm|(talk) 23:42, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
      • Ahh k, thanks. Splarka 04:48, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Oppose -gave me a headache! A curate's egg 19:43, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Support: Very illustrative -- Chris 73 Talk 07:38, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
  • Love it. Striking. Support it. Circeus 18:02, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
  • Oppose - this forum is for pictures not animations. -- Oska 04:49, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
  • Support - while not especially pretty, the image is striking and illustrates the subject magnificently. -Lommer | talk 22:34, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Support, interesting illustration. Phoenix2 23:30, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Yuk. Enochlau 08:52, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Support, it's difficult to imagine an animation better illustrating its topic. 01101001 06:43, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Animations need to be very good to get past just "annoying". ed g2s • talk 10:48, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Not promoted +9/-7, 3 Neutral— Sverdrup 03:12, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)