User talk:Mike1024

Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia, Mike1024! My name is Ryan, aka Acetic Acid. I noticed that you were new and haven't received any messages yet. I just wanted to see how you were doing. Wikipedia can be a little intimidating at first, since it uses different formatting than other sites that use HTML and CSS. In the long run, though, you'll find that the WikiSyntax is a lot easier and faster than those other ways. Here are a few links to get you started:

There are a lot of policies and guides to read, but I highly recommend reading over those first. If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. Please be sure to sign your name on Talk Pages using four tildes (~~~~) to produce your name and the current date, along with a link to your user page. This way, others know when you left a message and how to find you. It's easier than having to type out your name, right? :)

I hope you enjoy contributing to Wikipedia. We can use all the help we can get! Have a nice day. Sincerely, Acetic '^Acid 14:01, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

Gaston Lippitt

I'm afraid not, I came across the article purely by chance, and don't have any knowledge on the subject, much less reputable sources. Good luck in your search... Alai 14:58, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

Thanks. Dragons flight 21:57, 2 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Geneva Mechanism

That is a FANTASTIC animation for Geneva Mechanism. Thanks! Ppe42 11:38, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I agree - it's amazing! Well done Mike. I've nominated it for Featured Picture status. - Gobeirne 19:01, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Sparklers moving slow shutter speed.jpg

Please use Wikimedia Commons to upload you images. Thanks, Saperaud 02:49, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The reasons I havn't done this in the past include:

Don't like creating new accounts; would like single sign-on.
Don't want my edit history, messages, user pages etc split over two servers; would like them unified.
Don't like having files split over servers; would like a 'move all images to commons' tool.

When those things are present, I will happily use commons for all my image uploading. Until then, my images are all licensed such that you can use them anywhere without restriction - You can copy them yourself if you want to use them!

Cheers,

Mike1024 (t/c) 09:06, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Electrical substation

I noticed that you have been involved in transformers, I thought that you might be able to help out with the substation design / protection section. If you are an electrical eng. student then you might be able to ask one of your tutors if they have ever heard of an event called the luton flashover. It was a major substation failure in the UK which lead (many years ago) to a national power outage and a profound chnage in substation design. If you can help please contact me on my talk page Cadmium 12:23, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tip on my talk page, please if possible could you give me more details. The event which you are describing sounds similar to the events during the oct 1987 storm which caused the power to go off in London.

BTW do you get taught much about power systems on your BEng ? Cadmium 21:15, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

GIF animation

Hi Mike

I noticed that you were the one who had uploaded Image:Geneva mechanism 6spoke animation.gif to WP. What a great animation! The reason why I'm writing is because I am wondering who you have achieved such a smooth motion. I recently uploaded Image:3-phase flow.gif, and the performance is disappointingly jerky. The frames of this animation were created in Inkscape, converted to PNG, imported into Photoshop, and then built into a 36-frame animation (10° steps) in Adobe ImageReady. If you could give me any pointers as to how the Geneva mechanism GIF was created, I would be grateful. Incidently, I would give some thought to nominating the image as a Featured picture. --BillC 22:50, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your response. My original version was 824x526 pixels. The performance of this in Firefox was so poor that I didn't think of uploading it in that form and shrunk it by 50% before uploading it. Strangely, it runs a lot better in IE. What I surprising is that some animated GIFs that are larger (in terms of file size) that this animation run more smoothly. I've uploaded the full-size version: it's at Image:3-phase flow large.gif. It's running jerkily there, but better when you click on 'Download high-resolution version'. If you could spare the time to see if you can optimise it, I'd appreciate it. Many thanks, --BillC 18:12, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Arthur Vick image

Hi Mike... Arthur Vick 3 was my accomodation last year -- very nice photo, thank you. Lambyuk 22:04, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

3D Studio Max

Do you still have the files you used in creating the gear animation? I haven't used 3D Studio Max before, but would like to create an animation. The easiest way to learn is probably to see working examples. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-01-27 08:02

I've been looking at 3D Studio Max, and I know what I want to animate, I'm just not sure how to do a couple things: animating a string wrapped around a spindle, and animating a flexible diaphragm surface bending. I'm trying to do a 3D animation of this device (the first diagram). — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-02-6 04:20
- Is it possible to create a circular plane object? — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-02-6 22:45
  - Thanks for your help! I find I'm having a lot of trouble getting things to line up perfectly. I remember having this problem when I used to mess around with Worldcraft, which is similar. Is there any easy way to get everything to line up nice and neat? — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-02-7 06:04

So far, so good. I've tried searching for a tutorial on wire wrapped around a pulley, but couldn't find anything. My situation is a spool with a wire wrapped once completely around it. As the wire is pulled, the spindle turns. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-02-8 02:47

I made a line, applied the rope reactor modifier, then added the line to a "rope collection", then i turned the cylinder into a rigid body, and attached the line to the rigid body... but I can't figure out how to get it to wrap around the cylinder. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-02-8 03:21
Nevermind, I think I figured out how to do it with a helix spline. I'll bug you if I need help :) — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-02-8 15:21

Featured Picture

An image you created, Image:Geneva mechanism 6spoke animation.gif, has just become a Featured Picture. Congratulations, and thankyou for making it for us. It truely is a deserving FP, and a great addition to the articles. Raven4x4x 06:01, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just saw this on Signpost -- it's a very nice image, thanks for providing it! — Matt Crypto 00:37, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 21, 2006

I've put a basic layout up for this image. I havn't come across the column versions etc much before - where are they normally used? Cheers, Mike1024 (t/c) 00:01, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There are four versions, which can all be accessed from the archive pages Archive. POTD row is the version used on the Main Page. POTD column is the version used on most of the Main Page alternatives, including the classic Main Page. Picture of the day is the boxed version with caption, and is used on many user pages. POTD is the boxed picture without the caption, and is also used mostly on user pages. Thanks for the help. --Go for it! 00:52, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

The Original Barnstar

I award you this barnstar for your excellent summary of facts on the talk:Lolicon page. This is by far the best example of summarising a controversial discussion on Wikipedia that I've seen. Thryduulf 16:57, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

Why thank you! --preschooler @heart my talk - contribs 15:54, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks too - always appreciated when, sometimes thankless, effort is recognised and appreciated :-) I might though transfer it to my user page, as talk-page shortly needing my 1st archiving. David Ruben ^Talk 00:25, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rosalind Franklin

You have contributed to the Rosalind Franklin article in the past. It has recently had a rewrite and had a request for peer review. Your comments would be appreciated. Alun 17:34, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

About the WikiBreak enforcer.

Its extremely easy to bypass. Anyone with a basic knowledge of Javascript will figure it out. Maybe using an external time server would do the trick? Anyway, even if someone doesnt know anything about javascript, they can easily look in the past versions of the page, where a few users tell how to bypass it. I may be wrong, but I am pretty sure that there is a way for admins to delete or hide previous versions of pages. May want to ask an admin about that or something. Cheers! Wikipeedio 23:31, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alleged vandalism

Thanks for assuming bad faith. The reason i deleted that stuff is because it was over a year old and for the warwick proxy.

(The preceeding unsigned comment was made by 212.56.109.125, 19:47, 31 May 2006)

Belated thanks

Thanks for the barnstar from a while ago. You managed to post it just as I decided a break from the spam and vandal fighting was appropriate. As you can see, I'm back in action now. Thanks again. --GraemeL ^(talk) 15:45, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Color components (HSV, RGB)

File:RGBout.jpg

File:YCbCrout.jpg

File:Scale Comparison.PNG

Hi Mike. Nice work on the pictures you uploaded to HSV color space and RGB color model. I wanted to let you know that I edited the former as I felt it was a tad large. Feel free to revert the edit. Also, I played around with your concept in Borland Delphi for a few minutes... I came up with the following images after minor adjustments:

Image:Barn grand tetons hsv alternative.jpg Here the hue component is identical to your version, however I used the saturation and value components on a grayscale (black = 0, white = 1, as opposed to the white-red, black-red scales in your version).

Image:Barn_grand_tetons_rgb_alternative.jpg Here I used the color complements to represent 0, while you opted for black representing 0. I was hoping it would add a level of contrast.

Well, I am no artist so I leave it to you to decide if either image is more clear. No hard feelings if you decide yours should stay. (3ucky(3all 05:00, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again Mike. Your points are well taken. I was viewing the page in a measly 1024x768 at the time =D. If you would prefer the components to be visible w/o scrolling, this can be achieved easily enough:

I also understand about keeping the math to the point. So far as showing the generator code is concerned, Delphi code does tend to be a little more long-winded than Mat-Lab code. The code for this program is 183 lines, although only about 10 of those are the program guts. I could probably upload a zipped executable & source code, but I am not entirely certain how to do so without a workaround (I uploaded File:(remove .ogg extension) HSVRGB.rar.ogg if you would like to try out the executable, but it doesn't have much substance beyond entertainment value).

I will certainly have a look at YCbCr - I find color spaces are fascinating.

My version of YCbCr components follows. I used a similar scale as on the RGB components. Your version uses Teal-Rose / Olive-Pale Blue scale while mine uses a Cyan-Red / Yellow-Blue scale. I think it may be a matter of preference, but the murkiness goes away on my scale (which may make it unrealistic). FYI, see the scale comparison.