Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Images to improve/Archive/Jul 2008: Difference between revisions

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:No offense guys, I think the original one was better. The gradients look amateurish on the new one (they aren't correct for the forms), the stars don't mean anything, and the original one had a nice simplicity to it. The original one looks like it could be in a science textbook. The new one looks like it is something someone made for Wikipedia. Just my two cents. When I am looking for a light cone image to use, I'm going to use the first one, not the second one. Specifying "years" for time is totally inaccurate. In fact the whole thing has gotten more inaccurate. The light cone is not just meant for interstellar distances—it's a fundamental concept to all of special relativity, and applies even on small scales. Ugly and inaccurate -- bad combination! --[[Special:Contributions/98.217.8.46|98.217.8.46]] ([[User talk:98.217.8.46|talk]]) 15:10, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

::I second all of this. The two things that were added—the "(years)" label and the stars in the hyperplane—are wrong, however well intentioned, and need to be removed. The new image doesn't look perspective-correct to me. The gradient should be more subtle so that it gives a 3D effect without being distracting. The sides of the cone should ideally be inclined at 45° to the axes, not at some random angle. With all of those changes I could accept the new image, but the result of making all of those changes would pretty much be the original image. Not that the old image is perfect, but it's a better starting point for tweaking than the new one. For the time being I'm going to switch back to the old image. -- [[User:BenRG|BenRG]] ([[User talk:BenRG|talk]]) 16:02, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

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