Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Foucault pendulum animated.gif

Image:Foucault pendulum animated.gif, featured

•  Info created by DemonDeLuxe - uploaded by DemonDeLuxe - nominated by White Cat -- Cat ^ちぃ？ 10:36, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support -- Cat ^ちぃ？ 10:36, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support--Mbz1 13:12, 26 August 2007 (UTC)Mbz1
•  Support --Luc Viatour 16:45, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Herbert Ortner 19:24, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Jacopo 19:37, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --LucaG 20:02, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support -- MJJR 20:15, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Böhringer 20:46, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support - I really like the reflection of the pendulum in the glass. Pity that the picture is so small. Alvesgaspar 21:48, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose They don't rotate that fast, so it's a little misleading. Though the animation itself is lovely. Adam Cuerden 02:42, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
  •  Comment - Really they don't, the period is 24 hours... Alvesgaspar 08:20, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
  •  Comment Often wrong. 31H 57' at Paris. This is why putting a clock on the image is not easy.
  •  Comment - You are right, of course. It depends on the latitude. Alvesgaspar 13:02, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose ack Adam Cuerden. -- Lycaon 06:36, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Even if it's not in real time. Vassil 12:59, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Very very nice --sevela.p 13:51, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Beyond silence 14:56, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support -- Moravice 18:12, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Adam Cuerden. please log in to vote. Lycaon 19:03, 27 August 2007 (UTC) Maybe if there were a clock in the picture so that the hour hands could indicate that the cycle here is supposed to represent 24 hours several hours. On the other hand, the pendulum's period is probably only a few seconds at most, so that would work out to thousands of oscillations over a 24> several hours period. 67.96.174.66 19:02, 27 August 2007 (UTC) Sorry for not signing in before. Spikebrennan 21:01, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
  • the speed of the animation isn't necessarily unphysical as no one says it's the earth that rotates (though admittedly the compass suggest this). Anyway it is a very nice illustration of the idea of a Foucault pendulum and the captition can explain the speed and few oscillations. Moravice 19:12, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
    • The image doesn't have to be this misleading. Compare [1]. Spikebrennan 21:02, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose The reflection is somehow useless and disturbing. Thierry Caro 14:38, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support--Seeder 05:11, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Same as Alvesgaspar -- J-Luc 10:51, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Nice idea, nicely done. 11:06, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support rather small, but well done and interesting (the reflection is a cute touch). The image doesn't need to have everything on it (eg a clock, spinning hands or rolling numbers would be very distracting), the description page and any associated article are the place to describe the real time speed etc. --Tony Wills 11:12, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support KoMuNeRo MaG 18:26, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Agree with Tony Wills. --MichaelMaggs 20:32, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Comment ...but is stays very, very small, IMO, too small to be very useful: On my smallest laptop it covers 3.3% of the screen, on the other one 2.4%, and on my screens at work 1.6%. That's in all cases a tiny bit of real estate!! It should be possible to make this animation larger. If one has the skills to make a tiny jewel, then why not a larger one? Lycaon 05:49, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Karelj 20:27, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Merikapteeni 11:27, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

result: 21 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral => featured. --Simonizer 22:13, 5 September 2007 (UTC)