Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Neural map of a giant scallop

Neural map of a giant scallop

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 9 Aug 2014 at 18:09:12 (UTC)

Original – Diagram of the commissures, connectives, ganglia, and principal nerves of an adult giant scallop, Placopecten magellanicus. Anterior view, slightly turned, scallop opened.

Reason

SVG diagram is freely licensed, is of high technical quality, has been purged of rasters, and represents the highest quality image of its subject that has likely every been created.

Articles in which this image appears

Scallop, Placopecten magellanicus

FP category for this image

wp:Featured pictures/Sciences/Biology

Creator

KDS444

Artist's commentary: Image is based closely on a 1906 drawing by a biologist named Gilman Drew (source provided on image page on Commons). Drew's version was a complicated unshaded line drawing and very difficult to interpret. I have recreated Drew's image with minor corrections and have added color to facilitate interpretation. If the final test is, "Does this image look like it could have come from the pages of Science, I finally feel I can say, "Yes."

Also note: as the arrangement of nerves within scallops is highly regular, this image can stand as a definitive neural diagram of scallops generally.

Nominated through my Wikipedia account of an image uploaded through my Commons account. (KDS4444=KDS444)

• Support as nominator – KDS4444^Talk 18:09, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
• Support -- Coat of Many Colours (talk) 20:16, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Very useful. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:07, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
• Comment Very nice picture, but some nitpicking: I'm not sure exactly what you are pointing to for the ventrocentral lobe, lateral lobe, and dorsocentral lobe. Although my research is in mammalian brains, I can probably bet that there are two lateral lobes, but only one arrow is shown? Two are shown for cerebral ganglia. It's just a bit confusing when you really look at it. Otherwise it's really nice. Side note: any reason why this picture isn't used in Placopecten magellanicus? Mattximus (talk) 15:28, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

• Done and done. See current version of image, above. KDS4444^Talk 16:00, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

• Support Much more clear. It's lost some of it's aesthetic value, but it increased in encyclopedic value. Looks good to me. Mattximus (talk) 05:14, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

• Comment: I found the diagram particularly hard to visualise. Perhaps a comparative version with an outline of the animal could help? --Paul_012 (talk) 18:38, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
• Support: Given the nature of the diagram, I think it's fine to be at a somewhat advanced level. I do agree an outline wouldn't hurt, though. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 04:53, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

• I have now added a "sub-diagram" of the scallop's shells to help orient the viewer. It was a bit of a rush job-- I am now down to the wire, but I hope it meets people's approval. KDS4444^Talk 14:39, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

• Thanks a lot for making the effort, but I'm not quite convinced about the new composition. (The big black arrow seems rather distracting.) I'd be okay with having the subdiagram as a thumbnail in the description page, but I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around the diagram. In particular, I keep seeing the anterior and posterior sections of the circumpallial nerve in reversed positions, probably because the posterior section appears much thicker than the anterior. --Paul_012 (talk) 18:24, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

• Paul_012, where were you when I started working on this diagram? You are absolutely correct, the nerves did appear counterintuitively thick-- I have now reversed this problem, so the thicker part of the circumpallial is the anterior portion and the thinner is the posterior (I even applied this style to the little "flip" the nerve takes at its dorsal anterior "commissure" so it now "pokes back" slightly at the viewer). Also removed big black arrow (which was a bit distracting, I agree). Time for me to stop messin' with it. Thank you! KDS4444^Talk 11:49, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

• Comment Before I close this, I want everyone to check the modifications made today by KDS4444. @Coat of Many Colours:@Crisco 1492:@Mattximus:@Adam Cuerden: Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:38, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
  • Fine with me. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:58, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:Scallop Neurological Diagram.svg --The herald 12:49, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

• 5 supports The herald 12:49, 10 August 2014 (UTC)