File talk:Flag of Oman.svg

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Flag corrected. According to [1] the width of the vertical red stripe at hoist is 1/4th of the fly --Kookaburra 19:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Emblem is not the official version[edit]

{{Editrequest}} The emblem is not the official version according to https://fm.gov.om/about-oman/state/flag-emblem-and-national-anthem/. Could someone address this issue? The new file should be 100% SVG. Ideally, the person who vectorizes the improved emblem should use a Creative Commons license (as is often seen on a lot of flag files, including File:Flag of Kinshasa, DRC.svg ) VexilAlpaca (talk) 23:14, 22 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have now uploaded a version of the flag so that the emblem is closer to the official version.
I request that the current file be replaced with File:Flag of Oman (official).svg and that the file for the national emblem should be extracted from the linked file. VexilAlpaca (talk) 00:05, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@VexilAlpaca: sorry but your newly uploaded file (File:Flag of Oman (official).svg) is poorly vectorized.
  • The file is huge (145kb).
  • The outside of the swords should presumably be simple smooth Bézier curves plotted with a minimal number of points, but instead you have used jagged lines made of hundreds of points; this is usually a sign that the vectorization has been done automatically from a bitmap image.
  • The small rectangles are not rectangular. They have sides are not parallel and some of the corners have been arbitrarily rounded.
  • The circles are not circular.
  • No effort has been made to apply perfect symmetry where applicable.
  • The rounded corners on the two large white rectangles should presumably be done with perfect 90 degree arcs. The rounding you have used has a sloppy hand drawn appearance to it.
  • etc, etc.
Yes I am fussy. But I also admit that I don't often attempt to vectorize flags that have this much hand drawn artwork. I prefer to work on flags that can be laid out with mathematics. MapGrid (talk) 02:48, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The red bar at the hoist on the new version also seems to be a different size than the current file. Is there a construction sheet to confirm this change? HapHaxion (talk / contribs) 15:08, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@VexilAlpaca, MapGrid, and HapHaxion: I located the official flag and did some measurements, then compared to the 2 flags in question:

The table's caption
observation official flag File:Flag of Oman.svg File:Flag of Oman (official).svg
flag's width to height ratio 7:4 2:1 2:1
image to stripe height ratio 3:1 3:1 3:1
image to bar width ratio 3:1 3:1 4:1
emblem width to stripe height ratio 1:1 0.87:1 1:1
emblem width to height ratio 1.067:1 1:1 1.11:1
top of the emblem to stripe height ratio 1:9 1:6 1:10
center of the emblem is in the middle of the bar
bottom of the emblem almost aligned with the bottom of the bar
size of the file 17kb 134kb 
It looks like in photographs of the flag (like this one the width of the vertical bar does not change with width of the flag, but it does seem like it is varying a lot. I think the File:Flag of Oman (official).svg probably has a better layout and proportions, but it is much larger and I think we should use it. --Jarekt (talk) 04:54, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jarekt: I've found the most recent version of the royal decree specifying the flag. Per the decree, all three of the horizontal stripes are of equal height, and the width-height ratio is 7:4, with a standard 10 metre mast. The horizontal bar on the hoist is one-third the width. The red colour is Banto – New ORM. C2X Red, while the green is Banto – New ORM. CNE 354 C2X – Green. The flag also has three additional width-height ratios for 6 metre and 12 metre masts (for streets and in front of buildings, respectively), which are 2:1 and 3:1.7, respectively, and for tables (26:17). See also https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/om'.html. HapHaxion (talk / contribs) 14:17, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@HapHaxion: thank you for looking into this. Your link to the royal decree was very helpful. My read is that by law the red vertical bar is supposed to be 1/3 of the width, that would disqualify the File:Flag of Oman (official).svg which is proposed to replace current File:Flag of Oman.svg as a preferred version. The current version i am sure can be improved, but by a version that meets basic requirements. I will close the current edit request as  Not done, but please ping me if a better version is created. --Jarekt (talk) 02:04, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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