Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/CIExy1931.png

CIExy1931[edit]

The CIE 1931 color space chromaticity diagram. The outer curved boundary is the spectral (or monochromatic) locus, with wavelengths shown in nanometers. Note that the colors depicted depend on the color space of the device on which you are viewing the image, and therefore may not be a strictly accurate representation of the color at a particular position, and especially not for monochromatic colors.

Reason: Stunning colors (obviously), great illustration of the nature of color. See the image description page to find out why the three-pointed star shows up.
Articles this image appears in: Color, International Commission on Illumination, CIE 1931 color space
Creator: PAR
Nominator: Lesgles (talk)

Support — Lesgles (talk) 23:48, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, I dunno... it just looks a little to MS Paint to me. The coloured section appears to be cut/paste in from another picture/programme, and the line-markers (especially and the extremities of the curve) don't look professional. It's definately an encyclopaedic topic but done in a very unispiring way. Sorry. Witty lama 01:35, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Is there any chance we could get this in SVG? enochlau (talk) 03:11, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Possibly. I'd probably support it. Not just because of the file type but because it would probably be much cleaner. Can anyone make it?--Here T oHelp 19:31, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. (Edit conflict) Per above; not Wikipedia's best work. --Tewy 03:12, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Encyclopedic topic but what kills the picture for me is the bottom-left corner. Dan M 05:59, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Shucks. Lesgles (talk) 04:27, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Image too cluttered. Needs a more elegant solution concerning the axes, grid, tick marks and labels. - Alvesgaspar 00:46, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose -- horribly inaccurate. Most of the colors on that picture can't actually be produced by monitors, so the color of it is just fakery. Would maybe support a version showing the sRGB gamut colored and the rest of the shape grey. --jacobolus (t) 00:51, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I don't care if monitors can accurately reproduce the colors, this represents a principle. But what it is doesn't become clear from the image, and the caption doesn't help either. ~ trialsanderrors 06:48, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 09:00, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]