Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Roman Empire Animation

Roman Empire Growth and Fall (Animation)[edit]

Ok, I'd say this one is a more serious/legitimate consideration than the nom below. However, I think it also needs some editing. So two questions:

First and foremost, does the basic concept of this animation have a good chance at being featured?
And second, if yes to the first question, can someone help with the editing?

Namely (assuming the animation is good enough to be featured), I'd like to include BCE and CE denotations to all the years. I've also considered the possibility of including the event/battle that led to the growth/decline (too much info on i love you maria the frame maybe?). I don't think, however, that more frames would be a good idea; it would show the empire movement more smoothly, but time, size, and tediousness need to be considered.

All of the above, of course, is assuming we even want to feature this animation. Comments? --Malachirality 04:02, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nominated by: Malachirality 04:02, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

Since Image:Canada_provinces_evolution.gif, Image:CSA_states_evolution.gif, Image:US_states_by_date_of_statehood3.gif, and Image:Mexico_states_evolution.gif are all current featured images, and I personally think that these sorts of things are very cool, I strongly believe that this kind of thing has a wonderful change to be featured. However, this image needs some work to be featured (but, no, I'm not going to help with editing). One thing that would really improve this image would be to zoom in, with everything north of the island of Great Britain excluded from the image. Also, the edges of the continents look like there is some aliasing going on. So, definitely, this animation would be a good project to work on. Enuja (talk) 04:16, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for responding so quickly! And I completely understand you not wanting to work on this edit (I myself in the middle exams, and Wikipedia provides a convenient excuse for brief digressions from work (-:). But could you (or someone else reading this) tell me how to even go about starting an edit of this (zooming in, converting to .svg if necessary, adding text, etc)? I have no idea... --Malachirality 05:31, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As creator of three of the four maps mentioned (insert blush here), and because Malachirality asked, I can try to work on this in the next few days and at least do that basic work. :) --Golbez 08:06, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I'd definitely crop the top off, and also use the lhs of N Africa to provide an animated linear "timescale" as per this one]. Makes it a lot easier to follow. Big FPC potential here, IMO. --mikaul^talk 09:52, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for doing this Golbez. Let me know what I can do to help. --Malachirality 15:59, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

After taking a closer look at it, I think it's best if I scrap this and make an entirely new one. The aliasing is enough reason to start over, but I'd also like to research each step and note on the map (as I did in the others) why this change happened. --Golbez (talk) 00:43, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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