User talk:Simpsons contributor/Out of date 2

Image size

Hi Simpsons contributor! I just noticed that an animated gif on Wireworld is 26MB: [1] It takes forever to load. Can we find a smaller one that will get the message across? (guidelines) Ferkel (talk) 13:28, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Put the original display image back. Thanks.--Simpsons contributor (talk) 15:13, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations !

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Color_coded_racetrack_large_channel.gif, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Ksempac (talk) 08:30, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Color_coded_racetrack_large_channel.gif, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Ksempac (talk) 08:30, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

No need to be in a hurry, i was in the middle of the closure process when you put your message in my discussion page. The process has 11 steps, which is very long when you do it manually with a computer too old to display pages with lot of pictures and animation fast enough ;). Anyway, this message is the last step, so i only need to add one word : congratulations ! Ksempac (talk)

NowCommons: File:Phycobilisome structure.jpg

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A life without death animation

I like the animations you've been making for the cellular automaton articles. Any chance you could run a simple one for me for a non-Wikipedia use? See http://11011110.livejournal.com/174137.html for the pattern I'm interested in. (I know what it looks like, obviously, but I haven't figured out an easy way to turn patterns into animations.) If you can, great, and if you don't want to, don't worry about it. Thanks! —David Eppstein (talk) 20:56, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Ok, pattern is at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/0xDE/LwoD-4c9.png — white on black is fine. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:43, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Great, thanks! —David Eppstein (talk) 04:59, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Life without Death

On June 13, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Life without Death, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Mifter (talk) 05:28, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Wiki rotate.gif

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Failed nom at FPC

Hi,

Sorry for the failed nomination of your day and night animation. I think people were lazy, or got frightened by all the comments. But i definitely think it's FP-worthy (and the fact that no one downvoted you is a proof of that), and others images on your user's page also (but you should create some separate pages to display each category as your user's page is really too big to load and browse easily). I suggest you nominate it again in September (don't forget to put a link to the previous nomination).

In the meantime i expanded the description of the Edit 3 image, please check that I didn't make a mistake. Note that I wasn't sure I understood the sentence you quoted : was it by David Bell ? Or is Bell a co-creator of the figure with Dean Hickerson ? Regards. Ksempac (talk) 12:34, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Full color photograph of snow crystal

Hello, I like to add

• 200x - Kenneth G. Libbrecht, full color photograph of snow crystal under artificial light sources

on article History of interest and research for snowflake. I understand you are to communicate with him, so that confirm exact time of year he performed or opened to public. You can edit the history, or reply to this discussion page. I do not think citation is not needed for its timing, year, or he is able to mention on his web site if he agree with. Thank you.--Namazu-tron (talk) 03:06, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (File:Snow animation large.gif)

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vNCA

While the .gif is a very nice addition to the von Neumann Universal Constructor article, the description you give (particularly naming of components) is not in keeping with usual nomenclature. The components of a self-replicator are 1) constructor, 2) tape replicator, 3) tape rewinder, 4) initiator (starts the daughter once it is constructed), and 5) description of configuration to be constructed. I am the only person who has demonstrated self-replication within the 29-states of von Neumann cellular automata (vNCA). William R. Buckley (talk) 11:57, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, the Sphinx is my work. I also wrote the codon4 and codon5 configurations, and am currently working to demonstrate self-replication via the mechanism of partial construction. If you have some kind of improved performance observable within cellular automata simulation softare, then it would perhaps be of value for you to contact the developers of Golly (see the URL http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/golly) and offer your improvements. I will take some effort to adjust the text of your contribution; not a problem. My comment was primarily intended that you become aware of the important nomenclature details associated with machine self-replication. Welcome to the vNCA article. William R. Buckley (talk) 20:06, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

File:Photosystem 2 equation.JPG listed for deletion

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File:Pend equation 1.PNG listed for deletion

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File:Pend equation 2.PNG and File:Pend equation 3.PNG are listed there too. Svick (talk) 18:58, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Mandelbrot set animation nominated for featured picture on Commons

Hi Simpsons contributor,

As I indicated I would, I have nominated you nice mandelbrot set animation at commons:Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Mandelbrot sequence new.gif. I hope the shall advertisement I wrote there is factually correct.

I patched up a few details in the file page description there, concerning the zoom level and a link. Perhaps you should check that it is OK?

Best wishes from Denmark,

--Slaunger (talk) 20:46, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

No new vote. The WP and Commons FPC processes are unrelated. There are differences in the focal points of the two projects. WP:FPC focusses on encyclopedic content in articles on WP, whereas COM:FPC has slightly more focus on the technical qualities, "wow", metadata on the file page and overall usability on all Wikimedia projects. There are examples of media, which can become featured in one project but not the other, and then there are examples of media, which can become featured in both projects - and I think your animation is one of them :-). --Slaunger (talk) 07:45, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

If it is only on Commons, it is also on Wikipedia, as all media files on Commons are readily available for use in Wikipedia as well. This is sort of the whole point in Commons, to reuse media among all Wikimedia projects without having to redundantly upload the same media file to each separate project. So if the image is deleted here, nothing happens as the identically named file on Commons takes precedence. There is a minor technical detail in this though. Now, the easiest thing is if the local Wikipedia copy is deleted prior to it being featured, as when an image is featured on en, its image page is created, not to add the media, but to add to its description that it is featured on en and to add ctaegorization. If the local copy is deleted after being featured at WP, the local template and categorization indicating that it is featured goes as well, unless the deleting admin is careful to reestablish the page with only the "featured" metadata. his sometimes goes wrong, and if it does just contact the deleting admin and explain the situation to him. To avaoid this in the future I would recommend only to upload media to Commons as then all this complications is not an issue. --Slaunger (talk) 11:15, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Yes, an image can be doubly featured at en AND Commons, and the German wikipedia, the Turkish wikipedia, and... --Slaunger (talk) 11:20, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Successful featured picture nomination

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Mandelbrot sequence new.gif, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Maedin\talk 07:53, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

New user page

Hi Simpsons contributor,

Thank you for restructuring you user page into subpages. I can now load your page much, much faster, and I can still very easily find the media I am looking for.

Best wishes,

--Slaunger (talk) 15:19, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Photosynthetic reaction centre

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File copyright problem with File:Sphinx layout.gif

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You are now a Reviewer

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POTD notification

POTD

Hi there,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Color coded racetrack large channel.gif is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on November 5, 2010. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2010-11-05. howcheng {chat} 23:17, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Congratz with the main page appearance today. I think the animation is really cool and I have taken the liberty to also nominate it as a featured picture on Commons: Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Color coded racetrack large channel.gif. Kind regards, --Slaunger (talk) 22:05, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Excellent animation. I sat and watched it running for ages, inviting others over to point out its finer points. I don't know which Wikipedia page this is attached to, normally... but perhaps it ought to go on the main Conway's Game of Life page, since it illustrates just about every patten that this listed there!! Great stuff. TheAMmollusc (talk) 08:22, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Edge detection code

Hi Simpsons_contributor, I'm trying to implement some algorithm about the Sobel operator in S-plus language. I would be very happy if you can share your code to obtain the images liked above:

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In particular, I found that the Sobel operator is very sensitive to noise, so I'm not able to exactly reproduce the first image I linked. I tried a mean filter, but I obtained a non-optimal result. I would be happy to see you algorithm. Secondly, I'm curious about the code you used to obtain the second image (Red on centre, green off centre). Thank you in advance

ToMMiTTo (talk) 17:59, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

An example of edge detection using an emulation of retinal receptive fields

Hi,

I am very impressed with the results of your edge detection code. I am now writing my thesis about color illusions and I wonder if you could send me your code so I would be able to put it there under your name/nickname, of course. It would be very useful when analysing great masters works from this point of view, instead of using Photoshop and being unable to explain how it exactly works.

Please let me know.

Maja bury (talk) 11:51, 16 December 2010 (UTC)Any Music

A request for another sorting animation

Hi, I like your sorting visualisations very much. Would it be difficult to make one for Shell sort? (I have a new version of that article at User:MCiura/Shellsort). If possible, with gaps 10, 4, 1 or 23, 10, 4, 1 (I have no clear preference between the two). Thanks, MCiura (talk) 17:17, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Awesome. Thanks a million! MCiura (talk) 11:42, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

I have a question about your file:Sorting comb sort anim.gif

Hello Simpsons contributor,

Can I have the source code of it? I read the article of comb sort, and I think that you might have made a mistake or else I misunderstand the algorithm of comb sort. I think your anim of comb sort may not be the comb sort, and I don't know what it is. I think I can learn more about it if I see the source code Jerejesse (talk) 12:29, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi,

I have made a demo of comb sort and have upload it to wikicommon comb sort demo. Have I made the correct one?Jerejesse (talk) 14:28, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

I love the racetrack gif and wonder if you have an RLE file of the pattern.

I would love to paste it into my web page dbp-consulting.com/tutorials/canvas/CanvasGameOfLife.html I've written an emulator for Conway's Game of Life in javascript and displaying on an HTML5 canvas, and there's a place you can paste an RLE file. My email's on the Home page of the same web site.

Phorgan1 (talk) 12:20, 1 September 2011 (UTC)