Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Big Splash.gif
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This is the new version. Because of a new picture I started a new discussion. A version with english comments is here: Image:Big Splash (english).gif
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This wonderful animation was made by Marvel based on a suggestion of Gbiten to animate the drawing i made for the Big Splash impact theory. The perfect example of wikipedia cooperation across the Atlantic Ocean. muriel@pt 10:42, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Oppose I just loaded this image with two different browsers to be sure: It looks to me like the moon goes forward, then stops, reverses its course, then goes forward again. I will remove my opposition if it can be explained to me that this is meant to illustrate something useful about bodies behaving contrary to the laws of physics. Puzzled, -- Infrogmation 02:41, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Disclaimer: IANAA. Looking at this static illustration, it seems to indicate that the object Theia which impacted Earth was at the stable (under ideal conditions) Langrangian point L4 on the same orbit as Earth and came increasingly closer to Earth during several excursions away from and back to L4. You don't see Earth moving in the animation, so what this shows is the camera tracking Earth's movement in orbit around the Sun (both Earth and Sun are stationary), and it is relative to Earth's movement that Theia's movement is shown. Maybe an astronomer could clarify? We could ask at the Reference desk. --MarkSweep 03:39, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Hm. Okay, I can follow that explanation. Still, though I appreciate the effort to create the image, I don't think the illustration is clear enough for me to change my vote. -- Infrogmation 04:08, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- I think too, that the motion of Theia looks crazy, but I hadn't any idea, how to make it better. If you have an idea, say! --Marvel 21:44, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Disclaimer: IANAA. Looking at this static illustration, it seems to indicate that the object Theia which impacted Earth was at the stable (under ideal conditions) Langrangian point L4 on the same orbit as Earth and came increasingly closer to Earth during several excursions away from and back to L4. You don't see Earth moving in the animation, so what this shows is the camera tracking Earth's movement in orbit around the Sun (both Earth and Sun are stationary), and it is relative to Earth's movement that Theia's movement is shown. Maybe an astronomer could clarify? We could ask at the Reference desk. --MarkSweep 03:39, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Oppose I would love images (animations) which do not require an extra explanation which requires extra abstraction of the person looking at it. IMHO the explanation above is fine for a person which is usually thinking in moving coordinate systems but not for the common WikiPedia visitor. This could be fixed by a fixed camera view observing the Earth rotating around the sun while object Theia does his movement with the relative movement to the earth.
- Support. One minor comment on the animation: I think it would be better to show at least two full orbits of the moon around the earth, to reinforce the point that it's there to stay. --MarkSweep 03:39, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Oppose I agree, the animation doesn't really make it clear. I do think, however, that a similar image that is more self-explanatory would get my vote.
- Support You change the image title as "The formation of the Moon" may be better. --Fanghong 01:54, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
