Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Roman bireme

A Roman bireme (image name is incorrect)[edit]

I think it's a good illustration of a ship design that played a key role in naval warfare during the time. While the author was attempting to present a good overall view, the double banks of oars may be difficult to distinguish.

Nominated by: BrokenSphere^{Msg me} 06:36, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

You sure it's an illustration as such? Looks to have been cut out (not brilliantly, I have to say) from a photograph of a model ship. There's a fair bit of smoothed-out chromatic noise in the hull and other parts, or at least that's what it looks like; it's not good rendering if not. I think the angle is a decent compromise, but the photographic execution isn't up to FP standards, m'afraid. --mikaul^talk 23:39, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If it is I didn't realize the possibility. :( BrokenSphere^{Msg me} 00:40, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agreeing with the previous comment, which unfortunately means there might be a copyright problem here. If the model ship was built from a commercial kit then the design is almost certainly proprietary. Durova^Charge! 04:54, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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