Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Plastic utensils

Plastic utensils

Reason

A picture of kitchen utensils made of biodegradable plastic. The image was created using photoelasticity to produce the variety of colors based on stress distributions. Probably one of the best illustrations of the phenomenon (or at least, Google didn't produce anything close). The picture is also currently a candidate for featured picture status at the Commons.

Articles this image appears in

Biodegradable plastic, Photoelasticity

Creator

Scott Bauer (USDA)

Nominator

ShadowHalo

• Support —
  ShadowHalo 15:32, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply
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• Conditional Support - please crop away the partial utensils at left and right edges - there's even a black stripe on the very left edge... This could also illustrate polarization. --Janke | Talk 19:40, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've cropped the left and right sides some for edit 1.
    ShadowHalo 20:20, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply
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• Neutral While the quality is good, they don't look any different from normal plastic utensils and as from the commons FPC, what is the "polarisation" (?) of the plastic doing there? I know it's used to show the distribution of stress but what is the point in here? --antilived^{T | C | G} 05:37, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • The reason I nominated this image is because I thought it illustrated
    ShadowHalo 01:36, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply
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• Oppose Agree with Antilived, I don't see the relevance of this picture. If the objective is to show the stress, a single piece would be better. If the objective is to depict biodegradable utensils, why the special lighting? Aesthetically, I don't like it. - Alvesgaspar 09:41, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose, I'm more confused after having seen the image than before. Though an interesting picture, it is not encycloaedic.
  lama 16:04, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply
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• confused about what before and after? Debivort 22:55, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• support cropped version nicely shows the results of the technique. The article on the other hand doesn't explain the technique very clearly. Debivort 22:55, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Support (cropped version). I actually found the image more illustrative than the explanation in the article. Also works very well in biodegradable plastic. And has the wow factor. ~ trialsanderrors 09:02, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Support version with more supports, it's nice image for utensils at the very least.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  17:03, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Oppose Only one fork is shown fully and all the other partial knives, forks and spoons detract from the image. I find it a confusing mess of weirdly lit plastic things. Wow factor is none and it is displeasing to the eye. I really can't imagine this on the main page as the best of wiki. -Fcb981 18:44, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Maybe 1 fork, 1 knife, and 1 spoon, taking up most of the frame, and not cut off?--HereToHelp 19:13, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Tomer T 20:57, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Support edit 1. --KFP (talk | contribs) 22:03, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:BiodegradablePlasticUtensils2.jpg --KFP (talk | contribs) 22:12, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]