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Sarrus_rule_cross_product.svg[edit]

Updated with a and b

Hi! I noticed the English-language version of Cross product has been largely unified to use vectors a,b rather than being inconsistent between them and u,v, so your nice little svg is no longer in sync with it. I was about to upload an altered version of it (all I had to do was replace >u< and >v< with >a< and >b< in a text editor), but then it occurred to me that I should see if you were active, because if so, it'd be better to have you do it and thus be in the loop and not feel like your toes were stepped on. ;) Since you definitely are, can I get you to upload an alternate version, maybe Sarrus_rule_cross_product_ab.svg, and link that from the English-language page? The other languages still seem to be using u,v in that section so I wouldn't want to replace the original, at least not yet. Thanks! Felice Enellen (talk) 18:46, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Thank you very much for checking with me, @Felice Enellen: much appreciated! Besides the tspans, I also updated the description in the SVG. Cheers, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 21:53, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Cheers! :) Felice Enellen (talk) 20:47, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
FYI, I've updated both images to use the proper Unicode minus sign (−). cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 23:59, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar for Comparison of notable bridges[edit]

Hi there, Cmglee! I was reading the article on the Millau Viaduct today and I found your interactive comparison of notable bridges to be incredible. What an exemplary addition to Wikipedia! I wanted to give you a barnstar of some kind, but I can't find a good place on your page to do so. Would you accept one? —Shrinkydinks (talk) 04:34, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Edit: This one:

Thank you very much for your kind words, @Shrinkydinks: feedback like yours definitely encourages me to do more illustrations. And yes, please; I'd most appreciate a barnstar! You've brought up a good point – my archiving method hides barnstars I get. If you wouldn't mind leaving it on this page, I'll make a barnstar subpage and transclude it from my user page. Cheers, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 02:31, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright Help[edit]

Hello,

I thank you very much for your assistance. I had indeed requested for assistance and was assured that a coastline shapes from a straight down angle would not be copyrightable. To avoid any future controversies however, I will be sticking to OpenStreetMap for future works (albeit all of them linked to the Singapore MRT as I have yet to branch out). It's indeed my hobby to create graphical content.

Thank you once again. Seloloving (talk) 19:22, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Seloloving, You're welcome. I'm glad your issue has been resolved and you're not discouraged from contributing. I agree with the assessment that tracing from a photo is OK; after all, OpenStreetMap now lets editors trace Bing Maps aerial imagery.
Illustrating is also my hobby, and I've been looking at making SVGs more dynamic. An overlap between our work may be highlighting public transit lines on hover. It may even be possible to show the shortest route, including changing trains, by clicking a station and hovering over another, but it scales by O(n²) so quickly gets unwieldy for over around 30 stations. Anyway, if you feel like making your maps dynamic, give me a shout.
By the way, a barnstar is heading your way! cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 23:46, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, yep, I will be relying primarily on OSM from now on. I must say, your work is absolute genius. I had seen that graphic regarding bridge structures before and was most impressed by it. Unfortunately, the expertise required to pull off such complex files are truly beyond my ability to comprehend as I rely primarily on Inkscape, so I am not sure. Seloloving (talk) 13:16, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, @Seloloving:; very kind of you to say that :-) You made a good point about my experiments: if I wish people to make more dynamic SVG, I should speak their language (i.e. Inkscape). I'll see if it's possible to do it in Inkscape and write a tutorial, or alternatively, create a template that can be edited and added to in Inkscape.
Did you learn to use Inkscape from Wikimedia/Wikipedia/Wikibooks etc? If so, which page(s) did you use? Have a good day! cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 23:30, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I am not sure it's possible to create dynamic SVG on Inkscape though. I have been using Inkscape since 2011 and didn't learn anything from a Wiki, but spent months over months just experimenting and gradually developing a skill for it (with the help of Google, of course). Seloloving (talk) 01:37, 14 February
@Seloloving:, I typically either generate SVGs by hand or Python (or Perl) scripting. I find that it gives much more control, at the expense of ease of creating freehand shapes. Nevertheless, I'll experiment with Inkscape over the next few weeks. Cheers, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 23:16, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Cmglee: Thank you for checking copyright, I just read Special:Diff/940342014 (please ignore my recent e-mail).  — Johannes Kalliauer - contrib. 19:21, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
You're welcome, @JoKalliauer:. cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 23:16, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Interactive SVG for metro station layout[edit]

Hello! It appears you're the expert on interactive SVGs, so I'd like to ask for some advice. I'm currently bringing Harvard station to GA quality, and I'm hoping to include a map/diagram of the station. It has a complex layout, with several levels, so I'd like to allow viewers to show/hide levels in the SVG. I've obtained blueprints and am working on the diagram, but I'm unsure how to add the interactivity and make it user-friendly. Is this something you'd be able and willing to help with? Thanks, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 03:02, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Pi.1415926535, Thanks for your message. I don't consider myself an expert, but sure I'll be glad to help. As I wrote on user:cmglee/Dynamic_SVG_for_Wikimedia_projects#Progressive_disclosure, it can be done using SMIL and CSS (and JavaScript, but that's disallowed in Commons uploads). Both support hover effects:
Hover only
As far as I know, only SMIL supports toggling the state of multiple objects (your levels):
Hover and toggle
SMIL is, however, less well supported by browsers.
Let me know what you'd like me to do. Cheers, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 09:38, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I'm thinking SMIL will be the way to go, even with the browser limitations. Once I finish the static levels, I'll let you know. Cheers, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 01:18, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Clock Face montage photo[edit]

Hi, just reaching out to check all would be well to use the clock face montage photo you created for the Abraj Al Bait article for the List of largest clock faces article which I have just reformatted to be a table and added a gallery. Thanks. Robynthehode (talk) 12:04, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Robynthehode: of course, feel free to use it. Thanks for asking, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 22:05, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Illustration on Prosecutor's fallacy[edit]

Thanks for adding the frequency tree illustration in Prosecutor's fallacy, as it is really enlightening for the readers. I have a question regarding the numbers in the illustration: according to the texts "only one woman murdered for every 2500 women who were subjected to spousal abuse" and "the chances that a batterer actually murdered his partner, given that she has been killed, is about 8 in 9 or approximately 90%", shouldn't the correct numbers be 40 (instead of 45) in the 'murdered' and 36 (instead of 40) in the 'by partner'? - Saung Tadashi (talk) 02:11, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, @Saung Tadashi: According to Gigenrenzer's book "Reckoning with Risk", Dershowitz stated "certainly fewer than 1 of 2,500—of men who slap or beat their domestic partners go on to murder them." Gigenrenzer thus used the 40/100000 figure for "murder by partner", not "murder by anyone". This leads to the correct 40/45 i.e. 8 in 9 figure. Cheers, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 22:15, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Understood now! Thanks for the clarification 🙂 Saung Tadashi (talk) 03:21, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Interactive Map[edit]

Hello

I recently remembered that you are able to create interactive elements in SVG maps. May I know what would you recommend for this map?

I have managed to create a map similar to the one described on this page, but alas, found out too late that Wikipedia apparently does not allow any SVG with the script element (understandably). Would there be an alternative method? Thank you. Seloloving (talk) 02:02, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your message, @Seloloving: nice map; it shows the boundaries well. My recommendation depends on what you'd like to visualise and what data you have. Here are some possibilities:
Re shading districts to a given criterion, that can be done with CSS: commons:File:Map_of_the_national_days_by_country.svg.
You can even shade them to several criteria, and let the user choose which criterion to view.
Let me know if you've any specific ideas you'd like to try. Cheers, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 09:01, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

File:Comparison satellite navigation orbits.svg scheduled for POTD[edit]

Hi Cmglee,

This is to let you know that the featured picture File:Comparison satellite navigation orbits.svg, which you uploaded or nominated, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for August 21, 2020. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2020-08-21. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:13, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Geostationary orbit

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This is an animation showing geocentric satellite orbits, to scale with the Earth, at 3,600 times actual speed. The second-outermost (shown in grey) is a geostationary orbit, 35,786 kilometres (22,236 miles) above Earth's equator and following the direction of Earth's rotation, with an orbital period matching the planet's rotation period (a geosynchronous orbit). An object in such an orbit will appear to occupy a fixed position in the sky. Some 300 kilometres (190 miles) farther away is the graveyard orbit (brown), used for satellites at the end of their operational lives. Nearer to the Earth are the orbits of navigational satellites, such as Galileo (turquoise), BeiDou (beige), GPS (blue) and GLONASS (red), in medium Earth orbits. Much closer to the planet, and within the inner Van Allen belt, are satellites in low Earth orbit, such as the Iridium satellite constellation (purple), the Hubble Space Telescope (green) and the International Space Station (magenta).

Animation credit: Cmglee

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de Bruijn sequence B{10,3)[edit]

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You've got mail[edit]

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Mnemonics in trigonometry#Sines and cosines of special angles[edit]

Please add a reliable source for this material. -Apocheir (talk) 22:07, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

U. S. standard atmosphere[edit]

Hello Cmglee, everybody notices what fantastic pictures you make. Now in the page U.S. Standard Atmosphere you also made a great plot, which was subsequently altered for the worse by Users Athaler and Nelsonj3. And behold, the WP account of these Users no longer exists. I find we should re-insert your original picture in the article (which, by the way, is also well done). This would then also be in tune with your other, similar plot in the page International Standard Atmosphere. Do you agree? Should I proceed by the file discussion page, or by the article discussion page? Or just change it in the article? Regards, Herbmuell (talk) 06:58, 1 November 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Euler diagram of number sets.svg[edit]

Template:Euler diagram of number sets.svg has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. --TheImaCow (talk) 19:30, 22 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mount Everest 3D map[edit]
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The Optical Telescope of La Palma in the Canary Islands[edit]

Hello Cmglee:

First of all. Thank you very much for your work. I'm writing to you because we have a debate (in Spanish) about one of your computer graphics of optical telescopes. The Optical Telescope of La Palma in the Canary Islands, which is within the computer graphics?

Thank you very much !!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by ElAutosuficiente (talk • contribs) 17:21, 30 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi ElAutosuficiente, thanks for the compliment. Sure, I'm glad to help. What's the question again? cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 22:33, 30 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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