Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Penrose Tiling (Rhombi).svg

Penrose Tiling

Reason

Penrose tiling would not be easy to understand without images. The rotational symmetry and aperiodic structure are quite clear in this example. It is also an SVG.

Articles in which this image appears

Penrose tiling, Rhombille tiling, Mathematics and art

Creator

Inductiveload

• Support as nominator --
  talk) 10:29, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply
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• Support. Not the most exciting of things to my eye, but a great FPC. J Milburn (talk) 10:49, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak support. I can't honestly say that seeing the image makes me feel "FP," but the quality is good and the EV is strong.
  Nominate! 03:14, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply
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• comment some minor visual defects in the image. SOme of the lines down the centre are thicker than the other edges. Also wondering if a different colour scheme might draw out the contrast between the two tiles a bit more. --Salix (talk): 23:00, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Is the thicker lines just because of the rendering? I can't see it. I could create an edit with changed colours, any personal favourites? We need to stick to a scheme that works for the colour blind.
    talk) 08:30, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply
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    • I think it's just because of the rendering. If you click on the image and then click on "This image rendered as PNG in other sizes" and 2000px, you can see clearly that all the lines are the same thickness. Ozob (talk) 14:43, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: A slightly more colorful image of the Penrose tiling was used on the Jan. 1977 cover of Scientific American, and a variation of it was used 30 years later. That image is a bit more eye-catching but the additional colors add extraneous information that I think would detract from its encyclopedic value. The fact that there are only two colors may lessen the immediate visual impact, but one of the points of interest here is that only two types of tiles are needed and the point would be lost if there were more colors. This is more like a Bach Cello Suite than a Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto but I'd think there would be room for both here.--RDBury (talk) 07:37, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't think Salix was talking about adding additional colours, just changing the two here to something with greater contrast.
    talk) 09:48, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply
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• Support: Valuable, good format, clear.
  talk 12:46, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply
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