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Graphics Lab/Illustration workshop

The Graphics Lab is a project to improve the graphical content of the Wikimedia projects. Requests for image improvements can be added to the workshop pages: Illustrations, Photographs and Maps. For questions or suggestions one can use the talk pages: Talk:Graphics Lab, Talk:Illustrations, Talk:Photographs and Talk:Maps.
This specific page is the requests page for the illustration workshop. Anyone can make a request for an illustration to be improved or created for a Wikipedia article. Clicking the "New Request" button will bring you to a standard template for submitting requests, as well as general advice that should be followed.

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Orbital capture animation cleanup

An animation depicting a hypothetical capture of Phobos (small flat-ish round one) and Deimos (small round-ish grey one) by Mars (red). The Sun (yellow) and Jupiter (at itself) are depicted.

Article(s): Moons of Mars, others?

Request: Unhorrify? The Sun should be fixed, and the orbit artifacts cleaned up. Planets should always be centered on the orbit lines (they wobble around them), and Phobos/Deimos should be labeled P/D for clarity, although if you can think of a language-independent identification scheme, go for it. More frames would be nice, although I know know if it's possible. The exact shape/scales/speed of the orbits aren't important here, so feel free to recreate this from scratch. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 08:02, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Anyone? Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:18, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s): This is an orphaned image (can't blame them - it's one horrible child!) I don't see where in the Moons of Mars article that it would fit in - folks may have more incentive to work on it if it's going to be more readily usable. Jon C (talk) 22:09, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Apparently it was removed immediately after I made the request. But if it's cleaned up, I would definitely bring it back in the article. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 22:11, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Animation is not quite in my alley - would a sequence of static images with caption suffice? Jon C (talk) 22:24, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Sure. Anything would beat the current version. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 22:33, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Take 1. Since this is an entirely hypothetical process, I didn't see the need to introduce names in the image themselves - they can go in an appropriate caption depending on the page. Jon C (talk) 19:40, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

A note: the Sun should really lie in one of the two focuses of an elliptical trajectory (Ellipse#Planetary orbits). For your reference, the distance of a focus from the center of an ellipse can be calculated ${\tfrac {1}{2}}{\sqrt {width^{2}-height^{2}}}$, where width refers to the length of the long axis and height to the length of the short axis. Though, of course, I won't expect you to follow this rule in a digram too strictly, which would be difficult, but I'm rather mentioning this as something to simply keep in mind. And apologies if I'm bothering you with something you are already perfectly aware of! —Quibik (talk) 14:23, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Quibik for the astronomy reminder. I casually thought about Kepler when doing the illustration, but didn't check to see how far away the foci is from the of the ellipse center - will make modifications to make this somewhat more accurate (while still keeping the "intersection" of the orbits in place). Jon C (talk) 20:29, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

What about the following animated gif?

I created this from scratch, so I can modify the sizes, orbit radii, colors, speeds, file size etc... 4dhayman (talk) 15:03, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Ooooo nice. The "original" Phobos & Deimos orbits passed closer to Jupiter, I don't know if this is important or not. I'll ask the astronomy project. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 18:44, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

I'm not an expert in planetary science, but it seems highly unlikely that two separate asteroids were captured during the same Mars orbit, which is implied by that diagram. It might be possible if they were a binary asteroid, but in which case the diagram would need to show them orbiting each other before encountering Mars. Beyond the postulate that both are captured asteroids, what evidence is there for any of those orbits? Or indeed your claim that 'The "original" Phobos & Deimos orbits passed closer to Jupiter'? Modest Genius ^talk 03:37, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

"Original orbits" as in the "orbits on the original image". Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:44, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

It seems unlikely to me also, but I was simply following the old image. I can make an image that shows them being captured during different orbits, or orbiting each other. 4dhayman (talk) 11:49, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

I have a couple of comments:

1. The orbits look circular with the sun in the center, they should be slightly elliptical with sun in one of the focuses, you can find the correct orbits here or here. And can you please make the sun smaller? I know this is not to scale but each time I look I picture Mercury instead of mars ;-)

2. As I understand the sequence of events: A) Two asteroids are in their orbits at the very far edge of the asteroid belt (Hence their orbits should not intersect with that of Mars, and they should be closer to Jupiter's.) B) The asteroids get (relatively) close to Jupiter, and Jupiter's strong gravity sends them tumbling towards Mars (We can make the Jupiter approach happen one by one, let's say one at the 5 o'clock position and the other at 9 o'clock position, to emphasize that they were not necessarily "kicked" or captured at the same time.) C) They are captured by mars one after the other (The larger moon is the one closer to mars by the way.)

Excellent work otherwise. Regards, -- Orionist ★ talk 13:20, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm working on making these changes. Here what I've done. The quality has suffered a little because these are more frames and there's a limit on the size of animations. 4dhayman (talk) 23:56, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Fantastic! That's exactly what I was talking about! There is still one issue (it should be easy): The second moon should not cross the orbit of Mars, remember there are three planets between Mars and the Sun, although they aren't shown here ;-) and I don' think that kind of movement is possible anyway with the presence of the Sun. Instead it should be captured just like the first moon, from the outer side of the orbit, in a tangent to its new orbit (i.e. touching, looks something like this.) As for the file size, I think you can comfortably shave off about three seconds from the beginning, maybe make it start when Jupiter is at 12 or 1 o'clock, and you can probably shave off another second from the end. And I think that's about all! Regards, -- Orionist ★ talk 16:24, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

One more slight adjustment, to align the orbits more correctly, Jupiter's orbit needs a slight nudge to the bottom-left, and the Sun needs to move by half of it's diameter to the top left. But if it'd take too much time, forget it :-) Regards, -- Orionist ★ talk 16:37, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

SMEAT patch

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SMEAT patch

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Article(s): Skylab Medical Experiment Altitude Test, Skylab

Request: Hi folks, would someone please be kind enough to vectorise this patch and remove the watermark (the embroidered version of the patch doesn't display it, see here)? Many thanks in advance, Colds7ream (talk) 18:57, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s): This is one graphic that I would recommend against vectorizing. The original is notable in that the Snoopy was drawn by Charles Schultz himself. This has historical merit, is of high enough resolution for screen, and a vector reproduction will not capture the nuances from his hand. Jon C (talk) 18:05, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Fair enough; would there be any way to tidy the non-Snoopy parts of the image whilst leaving the illustration intact? Colds7ream (talk) 12:37, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

I ended up acting against my own advice and vectorized the whole thing. It's a work in progress, but looks somewhat cleaner than before. Jon C (talk) 19:49, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Two diocesan coat of arms

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• Coat of arms of the Diocese of Truro
  Coat of arms of the Diocese of Truro
• Coat of arms of the Diocese of Lichfield
  Coat of arms of the Diocese of Lichfield

Article(s): Diocese of Truro, Diocese of Lichfield

Request: I am forwarding this request; could an editor please create images of the coat of arms of the above two diocese. The shape of the shield is irrelevant; however, the common shape for English arms lately may be seen here.

An image of the arms of Lichfield's diocese may be found here. The larger cross at centre is a cross potent, the smaller four surrounding it are crosses pattée.

The arms of Truro's diocese are without an image to copy from, bur are described as, "Argent, on a saltire gules, a key, ward upward, in bend, surmounted by a sword, hilt upward, in bend sinister, both or. In base, a fleur de lys sable. The whole within a bordure sable, fifteen bezants. Ensigned with a mitre." In other words, the shield needs to be white with a red saltire, which is an "X" shape, across it. On and within the red saltire there needs to be a key and sword crossed over one another, each yellow in colour. The key needs to be in the backslash position, the sword in the forward slash, and where the two meet in the middle the sword must overlap the key. It is also important the ward of the key is at the top, and the hilt of the sword at the bottom. In the white space at the bottom, there needs to be a black fleur de lys. A mitre rests atop the shield like in the image linked above for the Lichfield.
Η936631 (talk) 08:42, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):

Personal flag of the office holder of the Principal Deputy Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Defense

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  SVG version

Article(s): Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense

Request: Vectorize. Thanks. Connormah (talk) 23:51, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):  Request taken by Orionist.

 Done. I was going to tag this as "Not doable", since it has a very low resolution and its center is blurry, but I was lucky to find this document with similar insignia that showed the center as consisting of 7 lines. I've also found out that this flag is not the personal flag for the Principal Deputy only, but for all the deputies and assistants of the Inspector General: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], and [12] (I don't know if I have missed one). I changed the file name accordingly, but it could be a department flag rather than a personal flag, and my search didn't return a single bit of information about it. So I'll leave the rest to you to figure out :-) Regards, -- Orionist ★ talk 18:06, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

2010-2011 Arab world protests

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Article(s): 2010-2011 Arab world protests

Request: crop sub-Somalia Africa. Also, someone has messed up the coding of the request template, please fix it.. Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 13:44, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):

Is the SVG file any better? gringer (talk) 20:45, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Ah, right. Looks like it's the wrong projection. I'd guess (from this) that the sub-Somalia Africa is included because of the Comoros. gringer (talk) 20:52, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

I've uploaded a new SVG file that has the orthographic projection preferred by the people who did the PNG file. gringer (talk) 01:17, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

No, I'm sorry, I'm just asking for the png to be cropped. Comoros is not part of the Arab world. If you can match the svg with the png with updates, that would be best. The png is the one folks are daily updating as changes occur in the region.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 06:37, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Yeegh! Now you've added Gabon and Albania, which are not part of the protests or the cultural sphere. Can someone just please make the requested edit?--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 16:52, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

There's been quite a lot of resistance to changes in the PNG map, so I'm quite wary about making such a significant change to it. I suggest you try to contact a past modifier of that map directly. For example, User:Master&Expert or User:HonorTheKing. gringer (talk) 11:33, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

West Indies Cricket Logo 1927 to 1999

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  Former West Indies Cricket Logo 1927 to 1999

Article(s): West Indies cricket team

Request: Could you please turn this image into a SVG and place it on a maroon background so that it appears as a motiff on a flag, similar to this one: File:West indies cricket board flag.png.Kwib (talk) 16:45, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s): Done.Kwib (talk) 13:34, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Libya

PNG

Article(s): Public Scout and Girl Guide Movement

Request: # please make this an svg and change green to same as File:Flag of Libya.svg-given the uprising, this may soon change... Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 11:22, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):

Bureaucrat

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  Original
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  Other one

Article(s): n/a

Request: Change File:Wikipedia bureaucrat.svg icon to have the new Wikipedia logo --Highspeedrailguy (talk) 16:46, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):  Request taken by Jovianeye.  Done File has been overwritten. --JovianEye (talk) 17:33, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Can you please flip the screw driver so the handle is pointed down? This will balance the image nicely. Regards, -- Orionist ★ talk 08:55, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

 Done See if it's better now? --JovianEye (talk) 14:41, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Great! A couple more minor tweaks: Please resize the wrench so that the handles are of equal size, flip tool positions and center. I hope I don't sound too picky :-) Regards, -- Orionist ★ talk 22:10, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

I would suggest you to do these tweaks since I might not be able to achieve exactly what you have in mind. :-) --JovianEye (talk) 22:42, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Unfortunately, parts of the file get broken when opened in Illustrator, otherwise I would`ve done them. No problem though, if you find these tweaks confusing, I`ll try and dabble with them sometime later :-) Regards, -- Orionist ★ talk 18:50, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Researcher

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  Original

Article(s): n/a

Request: Change File:Researcher-Wiki.png icon to SVG. Highspeedrailguy (talk) 16:48, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):

iPad 2 logo

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  iPad 2 logo
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  Vector iPad 2 Logo, stroke isn't working. And fix the licensing, I didn't feel like messing around with it.

Article(s): iPad 2

Request: Vectorize, please :) /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 04:53, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):

Cumbria

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  Flag of Cumbria (requires SVGification)

Article(s): Cumbria, List of English flags

Request: SVGification, please, but would also be great if the flowers and colours were more closely matched to those shown in the source material of File:County Flag of Cumbria.png. 86.156.96.153 (talk) 23:22, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):

Pentecostalism map

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  blank world map

Article(s): Pentecostalism

Request:diagram in every Pentecostalism-country population since 20th century.color code the map as looks like this File:Anglospeak(800px)Countries.png.i.. Department of Education R-X 12:04, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

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StormReady logo

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  StormReady logo.

Article(s): StormReady

Request: Please vectorize if possible. I do not know if there exists a version of the logo that can be automatically converted to .svg, but if there is it is not on the logos page. Ks0stm ^(T•C•G) 16:00, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):

SVGifying of GIF logo

Article(s): The Poker Channel

Request: This gif needs to be SVGifeyed. Thank you. ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫T 20:02, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):

KIIT University

Logo of KIIT University

Article(s): KIIT University

Request: Kindly vectorise the Logo or atleast remove the white background and make it transparent. 117.211.83.26 (talk) 15:43, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):

Haemophilia in European royalty

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  Hameophilia family tree image

Article(s): Haemophilia in European royalty

Request: Alice, daughter of Leopold, son of Victoria, should be boxed, as she is Xx and thus carries the hemophilic gene even though she is not afflicted. (See the Comment for the second edit). Also, "Kev" in the upper right hand corner should be "key". (And I guess the image should be SVG and could be cleaned up, maybe using different colors to indicate not-afflicted (XX, YY) vs. carrier (Xx) vs. afflicted (xY, xx.) I'm not familiar with how this works—let me know if I need to post this somewhere else. 24.24.169.239 (talk) 05:20, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):

Logo of Social network

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Article(s): LinkedIn and Orkut

Request: Vectorize.--Kkm010 | Talk with me 17:59, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s): LinkedIn Logo has been done and is now on commons. Orkut vector logo is hard to find! --JovianEye (talk) 00:40, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Map of USA with state names.svg

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  U.S. State Map

Article(s): Political divisions of the United States and lots of others

Request: Please increase the font size of "Washington D.C." slightly so that it is more readable. It's position and arrow line may have to be adjusted slightly as well. It doesn't have to be as large as the other state names, but right now it is not readable in some articles, but would be with a very slight font size increase. Kaldari (talk) 00:53, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Graphist opinion(s):  Request taken by Jovianeye.  Done Font size has been matched up. --JovianEye (talk) 03:13, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

C.A. Peñarol

Need SVG illustrations:

• Old Coat of C.A. Peñarol - example here
• New Coat and Flag of C.A. Peñarol - example here

Request: Hi, can somebody make a SVG version of each coat and the flag, please? thanks in advance. --190.135.197.155 (talk) 02:59, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

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