Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Plastic utensils

Plastic utensils

Biodegradable starch-polyester utensils photographed using photoelasticity.

Reason: A picture of kitchen utensils made of biodegradable plastic. The image was created using photoelasticity to produce the variety of colors based on stress distributions. Probably one of the best illustrations of the phenomenon (or at least, Google didn't produce anything close). The picture is also currently a candidate for featured picture status at the Commons.
Articles this image appears in: Biodegradable plastic, Photoelasticity
Creator: Scott Bauer (USDA)
Nominator: ShadowHalo

Support — ShadowHalo 15:32, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
~~Conditional~~ Support - please crop away the partial utensils at left and right edges - there's even a black stripe on the very left edge... This could also illustrate polarization. --Janke | Talk 19:40, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I've cropped the left and right sides some for edit 1. ShadowHalo 20:20, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral While the quality is good, they don't look any different from normal plastic utensils and as from the commons FPC, what is the "polarisation" (?) of the plastic doing there? I know it's used to show the distribution of stress but what is the point in here? --antilived^{T | C | G} 05:37, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The reason I nominated this image is because I thought it illustrated photoelasticity much better than any single object probably could because of the various shapes used. I thought it was interesting to see how stress was distributed through the curve of the spoons or the rod-like parts on the forks, but much less on the flat blades of the knives. I also thought the image was "eye-catching to the point where users will want to read its accompanying article". My interest in the image is not in how it illustrates the utensils themselves (so I suppose this page's title may have been misleading), but rather how it uses the utensils to illustrate stress distributions as shown with photoelasticity. ShadowHalo 01:36, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Agree with Antilived, I don't see the relevance of this picture. If the objective is to show the stress, a single piece would be better. If the objective is to depict biodegradable utensils, why the special lighting? Aesthetically, I don't like it. - Alvesgaspar 09:41, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, I'm more confused after having seen the image than before. Though an interesting picture, it is not encycloaedic. Witty lama 16:04, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

confused about what before and after? Debivort 22:55, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

support cropped version nicely shows the results of the technique. The article on the other hand doesn't explain the technique very clearly. Debivort 22:55, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support (cropped version). I actually found the image more illustrative than the explanation in the article. Also works very well in biodegradable plastic. And has the wow factor. ~ trialsanderrors 09:02, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support version with more supports, it's nice image for utensils at the very least.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 17:03, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Oppose Only one fork is shown fully and all the other partial knives, forks and spoons detract from the image. I find it a confusing mess of weirdly lit plastic things. Wow factor is none and it is displeasing to the eye. I really can't imagine this on the main page as the best of wiki. -Fcb981 18:44, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Maybe 1 fork, 1 knife, and 1 spoon, taking up most of the frame, and not cut off?--Here T oHelp 19:13, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tomer T 20:57, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 1. --KFP (talk | contribs) 22:03, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:BiodegradablePlasticUtensils2.jpg --KFP (talk | contribs) 22:12, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]