Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Tectonic history of Earth

Tectonic history of Earth[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 6 Oct 2010 at 04:32:30 (UTC)

Reason: Fascinating, high EV value. While under the resolution threshold, it should be ok for an animation.
Articles in which this image appears: Geologic time scale, Plate tectonics, Geological history of Earth, Plate reconstruction
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Geology
Creator: Eveilaje

Support as nominator --Nergaal (talk) 04:32, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral Absolutely morally support this. I was actually thinking last night that we need something like this as FP. Very elementary and important. However, this version doesn't do it for me. I think it would be great if someone could just smoothen it by inserting extra intermediate frames. Morphing can probably do this. Make sure to note which frames are real data and which interpolated, perhaps by inserting pauses and displaying the corresponding time before present. Speed in the end product should probably be linear, except for the aforementioned pauses. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 11:02, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree, the intermediate frames are killing it for me. If it was more motion and less of that, I'd like that. --Golbez (talk) 18:58, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Ideally yes, but I don't know if we have the frames to create a more smooth motion. Nergaal (talk) 21:22, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - Frames can be extracted from gif. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 14:54, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I like the part when you say that about "frames that are real data" :) In what sense some of them are real? Foldedwater (talk) 17:03, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Based on actual scientific research, aiming for an authentic reconstruction of past conditions; morphing, by contrast, will only do linear interpolation (or some more sophisticated 2D manipulation). Morphing cannot take into account plate tectonics, that would be *way* more advanced. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 22:27, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose currently, per the concerns mentioned by PLW. Jujutacular ^talk 01:23, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Needs to be smoother... gazhiley.co.uk 10:18, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Per above. Kaldari (talk) 23:54, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 04:08, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]