Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:WInd Rose Aguiar.png

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Image:WInd Rose Aguiar.png, featured[edit]

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  •  Info Replica of a wind rose from the chart of Jorge de Aguiar (1492), the oldest known signed and dated Portuguese nautical chart (original here). Yes, I have also uploaded a svg version but it doesn't show correctly here, as usual (St SVG is abandoning us). Created and nominated by Alvesgaspar --Alvesgaspar 12:07, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Alvesgaspar 12:07, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Question Will this replace this version as FP? --Digon3 talk 15:21, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Info - Well, I suppose that will be up to the reviewers. Though they are both beautiful, the two wind roses belong to differente "species" and authors, and have different historical importances. - Alvesgaspar 16:14, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support--Mbz1 00:52, 22 June 2007 (UTC)Mbz1[reply]
  •  Oppose - the image is clearly made with a vector graphic program, so that the file should be svg (smaller file better quality than png) Plus if it is really a replica you should respect the thickness from the lines and the proportion of the circles and arrows (including their overlaping, or wether they are simetric or not) by making circles straight, and lines thin what you just did is a very normal, if well old looking. windrose -LadyofHats 10:55, 22 June 2007 (UTC).[reply]
  •  Comment - I disagree, there is no point in making an exact replica, which includes the obvious imperfections. This version is, I believe, close to what the author would have done if he had access to the same instruments as us. I would have gone even further in this "interpretation" if I could decipher all the writings, in order to make them more easily readable. If I wanted an exact vector replica of the original I would have used some kind of automatic tracing application (as avalilabe in CorelDraw, for example), but that would have been useless. As for the svg version, it is available in the "other versions" section of the file and can be accessed by InkScape. It is not my fault that the rendering routine of Commons can't show it properly - Alvesgaspar 13:09, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Info - All the names were deciphered and the lettering was replaced in order to be more legible. It should read now: norte (north), nordeste (northeast), leste (east), sueste (southeast), sull (south), sudueste (southwest), oeste (west) and noroeste (northwest) - Alvesgaspar 16:02, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Bem feito! A beautiful picture. There was no need of making an exact copy of the original for use in articles like en:Compass rose without distracting background. Additionally you could put a link to the original on the picture page. --wau 16:43, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Simonizer 12:46, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --MichaelMaggs 06:21, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral I would have oppose this because I think it is too similar to this FP and I like the other one a lot better. But since no one else seems to have a problem with that and it is a very nicely done image, I am not going to stand in the way of it being FP, so neutral. --Digon3 talk 14:38, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Makro Freak talk 15:37, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
result: 6 support, 1 oppose, 1 neutral => featured. Simonizer 12:45, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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